nineteenandnursing

Hello everyone. Thank you so much for the advice! It helped me a lot! I've now been through OR and OB with no problems and put in IVs like it's nobodies business now! Thanks!!! :)

Hi everyone! I'm a 19 yr old ADN student and have been in my program for nine weeks. I have been doing really well so far and have been seeing so many new things it makes my head spin and I normally handle gross stuff pretty well. Anyways, we just started at the hospital and I was asked if I would like to watch a subclavian dialysis catheter insertion (I know this must seem so trivial to a lot of nurses) and there was a lot of blood and the vein was sticking out hard core and the patient was squirming in pain. I felt super hot and knew it was coming so I quietly stepped out and fell onto my classmate's arm and he took me to the nurses lounge. I sat there and cried for about 10 mins because all that is running through my mind is "I can't be a nurse anymore" and that "I'm too afraid to be a nurse." I'm so sad because I love nursing and I don't wanna give it up. I'm not looking for ways to stop fainting I just want to know if any nurses fainted in the beginning too and if they got over it. Any words of encouragement would be great. Lord knows I really need it right now.