Soon to be students question...

Hi Everyone,

I am a 21 y.o. student who is waiting my accpetance from 3 schools of nursing. Here is my question: I want to be a L&D or NICU nurse. I am also interested in ER nursing. Howeve, I am not set on anything. I will keep an open mind through clinicals. My problem is that I have a chronic fainting problem when it comes to putting in IV's. I was a vet tech though HS and my AA in college. I used to pass out occasionally with them, but I was able to get over it for some reason.

I am mostly scared of doing this repeatedly in school. It is not even like I talk myself into it, sometimes I do not have time to think about it before I feel that "I'm about to faint feeling". So what should I do?

In the meantime I am volunteering as a Cuddler in the NICU at a local hospital, but I don't see any IV's there (Its the NICU stepdown/ feeder/grower).

I also work at Student Health oncampus and I considered talking to the nurses there to see if I can watch them draw blood from patients but I think I would do better attempting it for myself than watching. So should I wait until I am in school and can practice?

Have you teachers ever dealt with someone like me? I dread that time in nursing school. HELP!!