Not working with blood?

[zmrmn28]

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Are there any other fields in nursing that include not working with blood?


tonight i found that during a bio lab that i cannot deal with blood, everyone was to prick their own finger and put it on a slide and several other things with it, as i watched other people walk around the class room with their bloody tipped finger, and smeared on their miscroscope slide also..i felt like i was going to either throw up or pass out 😱 🙁



does anyone know of any good career websites that u dont have to pay to use, to look at different careers?

 

[CMeaker]

Are there any other fields in nursing that include not working with blood?


tonight i found that during a bio lab that i cannot deal with blood, everyone was to prick their own finger and put it on a slide and several other things with it, as i watched other people walk around the class room with their bloody tipped finger, and smeared on their miscroscope slide also..i felt like i was going to either throw up or pass out 😱 🙁



does anyone know of any good career websites that u dont have to pay to use, to look at different careers?

Here is a really informative site I found that has videos you can watch of people working in different professions.

http://www.acinet.org/acinet/library.asp?category=1.2

 

[MollyMalone]

While there are certainly some nursing jobs that don't require dealing with blood, you will almost certainly come in contact with it during your schooling. Most of those jobs also require some experience prior to entry that would necessitate some sort of contact with blood.

That said, just 'cause you got woozy one time with blood doesn't mean that you're doomed. People can and do get used to it. Blood never bothered me, personally, but sputum and vomit... ugh. I used to gag all the time. Now it doesn't faze me in the least.

 

[deleted6669]

management.......

 

[zenman]

Try some hypnosis.

 

[Febrifuge]

How do you feel about the poo-poo? Not to be disrespectful, but if you can't change a diaper on a cute little baby in your own family, then no way can you work as a nurse.

It gets much, much better with time, so don't count yourself out based on this one experience. But do be advised: there are all manner of fluids, and you WILL deal with them.

 

[leviathan]

Are there any other fields in nursing that include not working with blood?


tonight i found that during a bio lab that i cannot deal with blood, everyone was to prick their own finger and put it on a slide and several other things with it, as i watched other people walk around the class room with their bloody tipped finger, and smeared on their miscroscope slide also..i felt like i was going to either throw up or pass out 😱 🙁



does anyone know of any good career websites that u dont have to pay to use, to look at different careers?

You need some therapy. I don't mean that in a bad way, because there are obviously countless numbers of people who are disgusted by blood. I just think that you need to reevaluate why you are disgusted by blood, and realize that there is nothing at all "yucky" about it, and in fact it is quite an amazing substance full of lots of wonderful things (namely RBCs 🙄 ) for you to examine in your bio lab. 😉 Same goes with your opinion on vomit, feces, urine, etc etc. And yes, unfortuntaely you will see a lot of it. A friend of mine who was once a geriatric nurse had an incontinent patient with diarrhea who happened to let loose when she went to transport him from bed to wheelchair...suffice to say she never wore those scrubs ever again.

 

[HopeLYSromantic]

at first I though of psych... BUT you do deal with stitches and things like that on occation... hmm... what about going into teaching or something like that??? although you would still need some clinical time.... I guess everyone has has something that bugs them... blood doesn't bother me I'm a Hemodialysis nurse... and I love it!!! what gets me is phlegm and the hocking noise... or even when people blow their nose... BLEH... of course I have to deal with it... but i know I could never do anything that required suctioning on a regular basis...

Are there any other fields in nursing that include not working with blood?


tonight i found that during a bio lab that i cannot deal with blood, everyone was to prick their own finger and put it on a slide and several other things with it, as i watched other people walk around the class room with their bloody tipped finger, and smeared on their miscroscope slide also..i felt like i was going to either throw up or pass out 😱 🙁



does anyone know of any good career websites that u dont have to pay to use, to look at different careers?

 

[DrB]

I can understand your fear...

While going through my premed courses, I decided that I needed a job in the health care field for experience. I read a list of occupations that my college could train me in and on the list was phlebotomist. I asked what that was and the advisor told me they like to call them vampires! 😍

Picturing myself with pointy teeth and a cape, made me laugh, but I signed up. In the classes we had to perform 30 punctures on each other... aaaahhh! It was a sink or swim experience... I swam.

One way to get over your fears is to flood yourself with the experience. Now I don't mean you should soak yourself in a bath of blood with candles and nice book... I mean you should confront this thing. It is fear of the unknown that makes us fearful; know your enemy and you need never hide.


-Good luck

-Dracula