Nurse Shark

Just hang in there.... I used to have fainting spells in science class in middle school while disecting frogs, then later in high school while disecting fetal pigs. I even fainted in the OR during a C-section during clinicals. For me I think it is smell that causes me to feel faint. I realized that while observing autopsy's. The cutting or penetrating part is actually very interesting. What has helped me however is that I have repeatedly exposed myself to the OR now to just try to get over the smells, the clausterphobia of the mask and so on. And whenever something is happening that is invasive while I'm at work I ask the Dr. if I can observe. I try to focus and make sure I breath and I also make sure I don't lock my knees ( I heard this from my father who's in the military and once passed out while standing at attention) :)

Jami, I was out of school for 10 years when I went back to persue nursing, and trust me I knew nothing about math( I could barely remember even how to do fractions, decimals, long division etc) I went to KMART and bought all the workbooks made For kids In fifth, sixth, and seventh grade. I know it sounds strange but they are only three dollars a book, and I was able to learn Fractions, decimals, etc. all over again. The books started from the beginning, and didn't assume that I knew the basics. Plus they are very simple and easy to follow, not to mention cheap. I did very well on the NET due to them. Also if you visit your financial aid office, they can help you fill out the application for Pell grants, you should qualify, and if not, online there are hundreds of Nursing scholarships available. Just look there is money everywhere. Good Luck, I'll pray for you.

This is a very interesting topic... I am a full time nursing student, I work part time, and my husband works full time with no benefits provided to him. Anyway we unfortuneately do not have any health insurance at all. We had insurance about 2 years ago but for a family of 3 here we were paying over $500 a month and every 3 months the insurance company would raise the rates. Also where I live every insurance company leaves and goes bankrupt and then your left trying to find new coverage. It was a no win situation. Anyway when I am sick or my son is sick I still make an appointment to see my doctor and I pay the $75 at the time of the visit, but often times they will tell you they cannot see you for 3-4 weeeks but go to the ER. About 1 year ago I had a severe migrane. I had numbness in my hands and feet, I was dizzy and vomiting, I had extremely blurred vision and after bing told that my primary doctor could not see me for 2 weeks I resorted to going to the ER. By the time I arrived my BP was 197/95 and I was in agony. The ER doc. ordered every test he could think of and even though I told him I had an CT scan 6 mo before he insisted. Anyway stupid me .... I now owe the hospital and doctor and lab about $3500. for a migrane. If I had insurance, my company would have been charged no more than $900 for all the services( the Miami Herald just did and article about the difference in charges for insured vs. noninsured a few mo. ago) My point is sometimes people don't have much of a choice. If the government would come up with a solution to make health coverage more available and affordable than people would not be flocking to the ER for minor illness. Also if the government would set a limit on the amount a health care provider could be sued , then maybe malpractice insurance would be more affordable, and more doc. would carry it, thus less doctors would be so quick to order so many tests to cover their own azz. I don't know... Sorry this is so long

You know, I agree with you. I am a tech and I make sure I do my vitals, accuechecks, I & O's prompltly when they need to be done, and I always make copies for the nurses and make a point to say " Here are your vitals, and Blood sugars" as I put it right in front of their face. But I have still had nurses on more than one occasion call me at the end of the shift to ask me why I did not give them the vitals for the shift..... I've even had one wicked nurse call me screaming that I didn't give her the copies. When I told her I put them in front of her face, she called me back screaming that I must have lost them.... And all of this was six hours into her shift(she could have looked in the charts after she lost them, they were there too.) You would think she would have thought about that before giving her meds., or as she did her assessments. I unfortunately see alot of things that they emphasize NOT TO DO in nursing school.