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Hello everyone! I recently graduated from a 1 year nursing program with no prior medical experience. During my last semester, COVID-19 hit, which shut down my capstone clinical. Now that I am starting my first nursing job soon, I am having major anxiety. The program I graduated from moved quickly to begin with, and I never had the chance to apply many nursing skills during the small amount of clinical time I had. I have never performed wound care or inserted an IV, NG tube, or catheter. It doesn't help that I have serious hand tremors whenever I get anxious. Although I graduated at the top of my class and passed the NCLEX, I feel like I know absolutely nothing and am very unprepared. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Hi everyone! I'm enrolled to nursing school for next fall. I wouldn't say I'm squeamish, from my experience so far, I don't really mind the sight of blood and other bodily fluids. But, I can't say I've been exposed to them all that much. Therefore, I'm really not sure how I will react. So basically my question is, did you all just kinda get used to dealing with bodily fluids often? Or did you know before starting nursing school that you'd be totally fine with it?