What procedure/situation are you most nervous about encountering?

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I start my 2 yr ADN week after next and I'm really excited, confident, and ready to go! The only topic that is looming out there for me is the Foley cath procedure. Poop, vomit, pee, blood, none of that really phases me (Im a mom of 3 young kids) but I have also had 4 catheters in my lifetime and I remember each one...VIVIDLY. Maybe that is what is scaring me a bit, the fact that I know how unpleasant they are. I'm sure it will be like so many other things that once I am trained properly and even after doing my first real one, the scariness will go away...right? :)

What procedure or situation is giving you some nerves?

Rose scented adhesive?? What is that?

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Specializes in LDRP.

im going into my third semester and have yet to do an IM on a real person.. and next semester is peds. i dont really want some poor little kid to have to suffer through my first IM... and kids can smell your fear! lol

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I've done IMs on newborns and that's it. No adults or children so far.

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from what I hear Vicks vaporub under your nostrils works very well for smelly stuff!

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NG tubes and the fact that we actually learn them on patients, not in a lab setting :eek:

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NG tubes and the fact that we actually learn them on patients, not in a lab setting :eek:

We did our NG tubes in the lab. I volunteered to let someone put one down in me but the instructor vetoed it!

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We did our NG tubes in the lab. I volunteered to let someone put one down in me but the instructor vetoed it!

Have you done them on a patient yet? If so, please tell me about it! :)

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Have you done them on a patient yet? If so, please tell me about it! :)

No, I haven't gotten to do one on a patient but I went with a classmate to do one on a baby. She was so nervous she nearly fainted. The nurse ended up being the one to actually do it!

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I don't believe we learn IV starts in school either...and FYI, you cannot try "a million times", by INS standards, 2 attempts and then you're done. We learned NG tubes in the lab, I had one patient who had one so I was able to connect and disconnect suction for meds, etc. but never placed one OR removed one.. eeek scary

I'm entering my senior year of a 2-yr ADN program. I have done several IM injections, one enema (freaked me out a bit LOL), one straight cath on a male, but NO wound care!

The one thing that makes me nervous is disgusting, horrible, deep wounds. I haven't had to deal with any yet, but I'm guessing I'll see some this year!

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I don't believe we learn IV starts in school either...and FYI, you cannot try "a million times", by INS standards, 2 attempts and then you're done. We learned NG tubes in the lab, I had one patient who had one so I was able to connect and disconnect suction for meds, etc. but never placed one OR removed one.. eeek scary

I'm entering my senior year of a 2-yr ADN program. I have done several IM injections, one enema (freaked me out a bit LOL), one straight cath on a male, but NO wound care!

The one thing that makes me nervous is disgusting, horrible, deep wounds. I haven't had to deal with any yet, but I'm guessing I'll see some this year!

We do learn IVs in school and I've done them in the clinical setting but its been a little while. Yes, we can only attempt twice, too. I've done IM injections on newborns only, lots of SQ injections, I've accessed a port, one enema, cath on a female, we had a whole clinical day of wound care (packing and unpacking freaks me out a bit), I've given IV and PO meds, um.... that's all I can think of right now.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

Anything with an airway freaks me out a little bit.

Sterile field though, that's my least concern lol

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