student1901

Hello there, Im writing this post due to something that happened to me this morning. At my morning mass, an elder man half fainted during mass. I was stuck dead in the middle of the pews , couple of pews back while two other men and a woman helped the man and the the ushers got a wheelchair for the man and took him to the back waiting for an ambulance. In a way I felt very helpless. I knew all the things I would ask him: are you diabetic, are you on any cardiac medications. I would have asked for some orange juice and a cool towel. But yet I didnt leap into action, like I always imagined myself to do. It was a humid room and the church did not have the AC on. But when my mother recently had a near fainting spell a few weak ago, I jumped into action taking her pulse,etc. Im a good student and strive for A's all the time, but I always have this fear that while I am academically skilled, I will lack in other areas. I have not gone to clinicals until this upcoming fall. Did other nursing students feel this way before clinicals and before getting that experience. I have never been a CNA or Nursing Aid. Can anyone help reassure me? Because today I feel like the biggest waste of a nursing student.