Squeamish Students?

[mofomeat]

I'm a pre-nursing student, currently in a Microbiology class. I like it, and it's great!

In one of the labs, we were doing tests on vials of urine to determine if they have or don't have a possible STI or UTI. During this session, a fellow student of mine dropped her vial of "possibly gonorrheaic" urine onto the floor. It shattered into a billion pieces and left a puddle.

Everyone ran away

All 11 students in the lab (I'm #12) freaked out and wouldn't go near it. So I took it upon myself to put on some gloves and clean it up.

I guess I've got the advantage of not being squeamish about stuff, but I was really surprised at how afraid all the other students were of... urine.

I'm venting a little because I thought that fellow nursing students were built a little tougher, but I guess everyone else has their breaking points. We'll see how we all do on fungating tumors/necrotizing wounds, eh?

*whew*

Sorry. Been a long week.

[Tflowers34907]

I am not sqeamish unless its happening to me or I start imaging what I see is happening to me. At that point, I am ready to pass out everytime.

[Nursing2102]

Well, Microbio is a class taken early on in most nursing programs (usually as a prerequisite.) I think because of this, many students haven't really had much experience with the "grossness" of nursing yet- hence why many of your classmates were immediately grossed out. With more experience being around an actual clinical setting, they would not be so quick to run from urine!!

[melc0305]

Instead of squeamish in our Microbiology class, we have completely juvenile. The professor referred to bacteria in the orifice and I kid you not, a girl says really loud "Why don't you just say butthole?" She's also made loud comments about inlady partstion, herpes, pretty much anything she could. I cringe every time...

[erinmarie320]

check out this site given by my medical terminology professor,they perform various operations and surjuries, its not for the faint of heart.

www.orlive.com

I love this site! It's a strange thing, surgeries fascinate me but venipuncture and IV insertion make me queasy lol

[nguyency77, CNA]

Haha, and as for the docs? It's my experience from working the floor that 90% of the docs I encountered as a floor nurse were either already married and/or huge jackholes - not very personable people.

It's my belief that medical school somehow drains certain people of their social abilities. Not all, but certainly some. I had a patellar subluxation needing reduction back in July, got transported to the ER, and when the doc saw me she exclaimed, "Honey, they told me you had a knee disclocation! What you have is a kneecap dislocation. They're two completely different things!" And LAUGHED. I was thinking, can you please save this until AFTER my kneecap isn't stuck on my femur?

[ArrowRN, BSN, RN]

check out this site given by my medical terminology professor,they perform various operations and surjuries, its not for the faint of heart.

www.orlive.com

did i say "surjuries" lol sorry for the typo

[TickTackJo]

I work in an ER and had a pre-nursing student following me around for the day. She had finished A&P and micro, but was not accepted into nursing yet. She was shocked to find out that nurses had to actually do and I quote "CNA stuff" like helping patients go to the bathroom and cleaning them up.

Then during a very simple I&D procedure she passed out directly onto the sterile I&D kit.

I would love to see if she became a nurse after that day...

[PMFB-RN, RN]

It's my belief that medical school somehow drains certain people of their social abilities. Not all, but certainly some.

*** No that's not the case at all. It more a case of they don't arrive at medical school with social skills. You see while the rest of us are chasing girls (or boys as the case may be), attending parties, haning out with our friends, playin sports, experimenting with ETOH and maybe other things in high school and college, learnin social skills - the wannabe physicians had their heads buried in a book trying to get the grades required to get them into medical school.

[mclennan, BSN, RN]

I remember this girl in my BSN program who was an EMT. She bragged and threw her weight around a lot, acting like she was some old veteran who'd seen it all (she was like, 22 or something...yeah okay) and generally annoyed everyone with her bravado and posturing. She was constantly volunteering to be the first one to jump into the blood and guts just so we could see how cool and detached she was.

One day we were in clinical in neonatal. A cool doc goes "hey, you guys wanna come watch a circumcision?" About 5 or 6 of us say yeah, and we go to this little room to watch. We gathered round. Braggy EMT girl was right behind me. I remember she was very tall....I'm really short. She was peering over my shoulder at the procedure. Suddenly she leaned SUPER HEAVILY on me and without looking I elbowed her in the ribs, eyes still on the baby and muttered "get....OFF me." She didn't respond and that's when I looked up at her.....and ONLY THE WHITES OF EYES WERE SHOWING!!! She had totally fainted. I grabbed her and yelled SOMEONE GRAB A CHAIR and we sat her down and the clinical instructor brought her around. HAHA! She was SO MORTIFIED. Served her right, we all looked at each other and smiled evil little smiles. She really shut up after that.

[nguyency77, CNA]

*** No that's not the case at all. It more a case of they don't arrive at medical school with social skills. You see while the rest of us are chasing girls (or boys as the case may be), attending parties, haning out with our friends, playin sports, experimenting with ETOH and maybe other things in high school and college, learnin social skills - the wannabe physicians had their heads buried in a book trying to get the grades required to get them into medical school.

That's a very good point! I hadn't thought of that. :) I guess 4 years of Organic Chem and physics will do that to you. I still can't believe she was laughing at my pain; the LPN and the RN caring for me did not find anything funny about the situation. The doc even asked why I was crying! Wow. Um, why do YOU think?