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I recently started working at a plasma center and so far so good. As a RN you are required to do the physicals of the new donors and annual physicals on repeat donors. Physicals are basic vitals, and medical history that would exclude them from donating. If a repeat donor comes in to donate for that day and the screen receives an abnormal vital sign as the nurse you will reassess and if appropriate pass that person through or send them home for the day. Part of the job has to do a lot with education on high risk behaviors that would prevent them from donating, if there hematocrit or serum protein is low how to correct their diet and also referrals to neighborhood clinics for high blood pressure and other ailments. I have had both slow days and days that required a lot more time and input but overall it is a good learning environment.

Retching right before they vomit makes the hair stand up on my neck and then I begin to gag! Also the aroma of gangrene gets me everytime

Maybe if you focus your energy on searching for employment and take into consideration that most things in life never go exactly as you planned. Yes, it would be nice to have employers lined up to hire you, but it just is not happening in this economy. I wish you well on your new endeavor.

From the view point of a paramedic I agree with the above post in knowing that you did the best you could and knowing that all else was out of your control. What you take away from the trauma is some of the most important life experiences. A lot of people will tell you eventually you will become desensitized and to somethings you will but others will stick with you. You are human first, then a professional nurse. As a medic people often asked me what was the worse thing I have ever seen and I already know they were looking for the gore, the trauma but for me it was always the emotional calls that broke my heart. Where a spouse loses the other one after 50 years of marriage or the young mother that dies from cancer. Hang in there and take what you see and learn and cultivate it into your strength, best of luck.

Congrats:yeah:

My major is nursing, but I am completing my business degree simultaneously. I know it sounds ridiculous but I was 12 credits shy of completing my business degree, so it made to sense to finish. To make it even more interesting they are both accelerated. I guess I am a glutton for punishment!

Congratulations I am sure you will make an excellent nurse with the compassion that you have for others in your heart. Best of luck in your new journey

Congrats:yeah:

Good luck

I took mine yesterday and have to agree with scrubme4me86 that it was different! I had 23 SATA, 1 math calculation and 4-5 pharm questions. I was neither excited or devastated when I finished at 75 so we will see... I did the PVT and got the good pop so keeping my fingers crossed

mani/pedi, nice dinner and a movie, shopping