Hardest thing for me has always been being involved in pain-inflicting procedures or witnessing providers inflicting pain upon patients, because empathy. I was there watching a resident do his first spinal tap, and he missed over and over again and I just about threw up when the patient experienced some shooting pain, ugh.I've always found that thinking about gruesome things is far, far, worse than actually seeing them.
Sometimes, when thinking or talking about a specific injury, I get wigged out and feel worried that I couldn't handle it in real life. That has yet to happen.
I think part of it is this: when I imagine an injury, I always end up picturing, not what it would look like, but what it would be like to personally suffer that injury. That's a bit much.
When I see a wound, it's something I can be more objective about. It's over there, it's on that person, I can see what needs to be done, and I are too busy doing things to sit there imagining the actual injurious event. Or rather, there is no need to imagine it, because I can frakking see it. That's not to say that I lose all ability to empathize with the person over how it must hurt, but I am able to separate myself from it.
This is just me, of course. I don't know how others react. But I'm better off witnessing an injury than reading about it.
Somehow that doesn't usually bother me. I'm generally OK with needles and lacerations, though, even when I'm on the receiving end...so even when I picture feeling those myself, it doesn't make me uncomfortable.
That's so decontextualized; it's just liquid in a tube at that pointThat's fair. However you don't think a job like lab processor is a good place to find out? The bring in tubes of blood, collected by others, spin them down, separate into plasma/serum, whatever needs done and hand them off to the lab techs. That is a decent amount of contact with blood. If they can get past that, then over time even larger amounts/situations should be possible.
Just my idea
For me, it's spine, ortho, degloving, burns, and eyes. Other than that, most things don't bug me. Spinal taps though- ugh, you're literally stabbing a person in the nerve if you screw up, and that skeeves me out.
Yeah, but it's a start. Then when the blood comes out of a person it's the same thing (minus any additives in the tube).That's so decontextualized; it's just liquid in a tube at that point
Re: RBC count...cuz it adds no work but gives official documentation that they checked that parameter. Charting is fun.
Really, 'touch and go'?
Must've been one hell of a LASIK procedure
To differentiate between a traumatic tap and a subarachnoid hemorrhage an rbc count is ordered on Tube 1 & 3(generally). Also, there is something rare relating to bacteria that can call for this (based on my foggy memory on that).
Its just the bleeding part itself, losing the blood. I can look at blood vials just fine, and same with bags. and thinking of the blood in my veins (but only sometimes).
I am getting significantly better though, when I was 14, for example, I would absolutely pass out. but now at the age of 19, I witnessed my mother getting a blood draw and it didnt phase me. Its like a random thing kinda.
I think its the feeling of losing blood supply, like the weakening that freaks me out.
From blood draws?
Damn I thought I was the only one like this. That's the biggest reason I get wigged out over blood draws.
