Comments on: Squeamish Nurse

By: Amy Mc

Amy Mc — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:21:12 +0000

Hey! I’m starting nursing school in the spring - how did it go for you? I, too, am quite squeamish, but when it comes to drawing blood.

By: Kevin C

Kevin C — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:16:17 +0000

How did things end up?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:46:11 +0000

i never got over being squeamish
it feels horrible going pale and sweaty
like you’re dying!

By: Lez

Lez — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:36:36 +0000

Hi Jaxia

I am starting at nursing school on Monday (Jan 08) and I’m very sesative to smells… as soon as the cat’s sick I automatically start reaching so I don’t know what I’m going to do when faced with body smells and body fluid. help! Have you spoken to anyone since your last posting about this?

By: Edith

Edith — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:45:57 +0000

I didn’t deal well with watching people have IVs placed because of my own discomfort with it. So I’ve just forced myself to watch, breathe deep, and remind myself over and over that I’m a professional and it’s going to help the patient. I’ve also tried it when it was my turn- and I have to admit, forcing myself to watch has helped just a little when I have to have it done.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:35:40 +0000

Ohhh . . . people in pain that the narcotics won’t touch is hard to deal with! As for the blood–I don’t know; it doesn’t bother me.

By: StudentNurseJack

StudentNurseJack — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:05:30 +0000

One thing to try is this: Remember that at the end of the hard work and the intensity, there is a gift more precious than anything else in the world for that patient to receive. Maybe focusing on that will help put the blood and pain in a different perspective?

Have a good semester!

By: Nurse William

Nurse William — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:55:21 +0000

You’ll do fine. Once you’re in the thick of things, your brain will ‘go clinical.’ You’ll focus on the nuts and bolts of the situation and be able to think clearly while paying attention to the important stuff. I was really squeamish until I became an ER nurse. Now the wounds and the ‘pumpers’ don’t bother me.

But thick, green snot… THAT still bothers me. Let me know how it goes. I’m rooting for you!