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How do you find time to do so with all the med passes and constant in and out of patient’s rooms? Not to mention calling up doctors/orders and labs and all that other stuff
This is the same stuff that I tell brand new CNA‘s as one myself and also a nursing student. I tell them if you’re in it for the money this is not the field for you. You have to love what you do at the end of the day yes we all struggle in majority of these areas from time to time, but we managed to overcome it and a lot of us really wouldn’t change the career path we chose I’m proud to be in this field and continuing my journey in healthcare
Right? If you are in it for the money, let me stop you right there…we don’t make a lot of money! Lmao 🤣 we did it because we actually have fun making others happy! Hard to believe but it’s innate
I have a few of these and 100% still think I’m a good nurse and will find a good fit. But if you dislike all of these just don’t go for your LPN cause we get the scrut work in the nursing homes most. RNs have a lot more jobs to choose from. Which is why I am going back to school
I'm a nurse from Indonesia and I've been working in the central surgical installation for 21 years and I like my job as a doctor's assistant during surgery
There isn’t much stability in nursing. You will jump around a lot. Three 12s aren’t as great as they make them out to be. But if you’re getting your RN you can always change where your at. A bachelors is definitely worth it so you have many options.
Come back and comment after a year 😂 Hands on you’ll quickly find out if you’re cut out for it. I find most that choose it for “stability “ the 3 12s usually RUN and regret their choice . FYI 3 12s and 4 off aren’t usually consecutive. After 3-4 12s you spend a day or two recovering . Your 4 days can be broken up and each day after a 12 … well it hurts . I hate the 12s take M-F over floor nursing any day ! That burns you out quickly including those of us that chose nursing out of passion not “stability “ 🙄.
Sarah, you, your Husband, and your channel, are a blessing to the student/healthcare community! I could not imagine trying to get through nursing school without your channel! Thank you! Please keep making videos!
Sarah, several years ago I hated body fluids and needles, and I wondered if I could make it as a nurse. I got into my LVN program, and realized oooh boy this is real, let’s see if I can do this! And I DID! I was surprised that none of that stuff bothered me one bit because my desire to care for patients was stronger. I’m a senior in my program now, I feel like I’ve learned so much but I still don’t feel ready or qualified at all.. but your videos have really helped me along my nursing journey 💕🥰
By the way, I highly recommend people to become a CNA first before going into nursing. I didn’t do it, but I think taking that extra step really tells you if this is the career path for you and you get comfortable with patient care. And the other benefit is that you won’t have wasted time and money in an actual nursing program before finding out if it’s right for you.
at my 1st change of patient pampers i almost vomited after studies and 1 year of practicing i can even make figurines out of feces xD and have a lot of fun when patient paint his face in his own feces calling assistants to fecal incident and clear him together.
It is very important video, thank you. You are right, after while all body fluids or wounds or unpleasant bodies are not so shocking, we can get used to anybody.... I became a nurse at age 33, now working as nurse in ICU in Israel. My work gave me confidence, meaning for my life, profession for many years and also financial stability. Also my children see me as strong women that choose to dedicate her life in caring other people.
I hate the stress. But maybe that is a Swedish problem because we are so understaffed here compared to other countries. And the stress also makes coworkers mean and impatient towards each other. I am also not willing to sacrifice all of my free time and social life for my job. I am working to pay my bills and thats it. I am not willing to sacrifice my health, my dreams and my family for my job... so if my schedule is too tight.. then I guess that nursing is not the job for me. And having lovely coworkers and patients is also very important for me. When you got good people around you then you feel better, and you feel like you job matters and it is great to help another person and even saving their life and cheer them up the worst day of their life. Your coworkers can make laugh, cheer you up when you are sad or feeling inadequate, and help you when you have tonnes of work to do. But if your patients and coworkers are unpleasant, then it is very easy to start hating your job and getting depressed. Bullies, people who say mean things behind your back are a plague to every work place and create dysfunctional workplaces. They drain your energy, make you feel insecure about yourself even if you do a good job, and they make you wanna go home as fast as you can. Patients that are rude for no reason, waste your time on simple things they can do themselves, and dementia patients who exhaust you by shouting "Hello" out from their hospital bed for an entire day can make life miserable. And while most family members are lovely and a great asset both for you and your patient, are some very unpleasant to have anything to with. Some are rude for no reason, call you up and give you insults and accuse you of all kinds of things, and being ungrateful for tonnes of work you have spent on their relative. They sometimes think they know better than doctors that have spent 15 years of their life studying medicine, and refuse to cooperate and even to listen when they are wrong. So they keep on giving oxygen to patients despite they no longer needs it and only get negative effects from it. They flush food injections in fast speed into patients, instead of listening to doctors that it will create aspiration problems and give their husband pneumonia. 🙄 In the end I do think that the most important thing is to find a hospital and a floor where you feel like you have come to the right place. That you got a reasonable schedule, good coworkers, and that you get patients which you mostly can tolerate. And if you feel inadequate, then maybe you either need more training. Or you might have to rethink where you want to be working. Previously I have thought that it was under my dignity to do simple jobs like like taking blood samples, vaccinations, psychriatic care and such. But if your coworkers are lovely and you feel like you can do your job well and get well paid and have much free time... then why not take this job?
There’s understaffing for nursing all over the world right now. The US has 300,000 more nursing jobs than it has nurses. So that’s 300,000 positions permanently open. But certain specialities and areas are less stressful and overwhelming! Like hospice, usually clinics, nurse educators, etc
I completely agree with everything you said especially the rude patients. I don’t know if the cold weather puts them in a bad mood, but lately I have had more rude patients than usually and it’s really mentally straining.
I am nurse trainee rn and I know I am not gonna stay in this field bcz I feel like although everyone says that sympathetic or empathetic ppl will be good nurse but what I am feeling like it's also a disadvantage.. It will be good for patient but if u are an empath , this field is gonna make u suffer mentally.. I have seen postmortem and ppl getting cuts and all & I handled it pretty well but when you know they are in pain and u have to treat them it's very hard bcz u feel mental pain and that's exhausting.. I am doing good as a trainee ; I have always been good in studies and in learning anything but it's tough to stay in this field for me.. I'll complete my training and then move to another field. Anyway I am grateful to have this opportunity bcz I got to learn a lot.
You can comfort yourself thinking that you did everything you could to help that patient and that he was probably thankful for all the help that you gave to him. Death is also a part of life for us all. And all we can do is to try to make life as good as possible while we still living. If you look after his needs, and give him pain relief, give him some comforting words, and give him a friendly pat on the back, and show him that you listen and cares... then he will think that he has been given all the help that he possible could ask for and be very grateful for that. It is a very beautiful thing that you can do that for another human being. And once someone is dead, then he does not have to suffer anymore. And the people around him get some relief and can think of themselves again.
My mother convinced me to go to nursing school in 1999 and I could not deal with the bodily fluids. I continued to work in an administrative position in the medical field but its definitly the reason why I do not have RN behind my name.
Thanks so much for all of your videos. Other things about bedside nursing that make graduates run away from hospital bedside care and become, say, school nurses is the constant or frequent heavy load of patients that require frequently running back into the room to prevent falls because there aren’t enough sitters, or patients who decline and become critically ill on the floor and have to be cared for until a bed opens up, or working in bad hospital environments with screaming doctors or too much accountability put on the nurses and knowing when to leave and find a new hospital, or patients who might take a swing at you or grab you because they are confused and hostile, and receiving bad verbal orders from doctors, NP’s, and residents who should know better but don’t and the nurse gets blamed for following a bad order. It’s a mess sometimes and a total disaster other times. If you survive and figure out how to navigate it all - God Bless you!!
I struggle interacting with anxious family members. I can mentally understand why they’re like that but I FEEL irritated that it’s taking away from time with the patients
@@Thatsjustme123 I take it you’ve never worked in a “specialty “ clinic chemotherapy, radiation, dialysis? Families are for most part very active in the care of their loved ones.
Get your social worker involved. We do total care that includes mind, body , and their loved ones . You don’t understand them if it’s a burden on you . Empathy active listening de escalation… That is part of our care plus some .
I am more grossed out by my own blood but as long as I have good PPE, then I don't get grossed out easily. I am empathetic and love to serve and help others and get motivated by helping others, except I don't do well with death as I have not experience too much of it (luckily). I do like the physical work because it helps my brain work better.
I love being of service to others, science and medicine, being a part of a team, and bodily fluids don’t bother me. My only concern is frustration. I’m halfway through clinicals right now and I don’t know how to handle patients who completely refuse to comply with their medications, or diet, or dialysis. I get so angry! I want to help you get better and feel better- why don’t *you* want that for yourself? Ugh!
I’ve found that the best way to help patients or get them to care about their health, is figure out what personally motivates them. What are their goals? Why do they want to keep living? What quality of life do they want? It’s also easier to give them proper care and directives when you focus your attention on those goals. For example, palliative care, hospice, people who have illnesses that can become very depressing, etc. Some people want to live as long as possible, but others may just want to see their grandkids, or see their children get married, be healthy enough to play with their kids or grandkids. Other people may just have discomfort and knowing what they need to change to help those discomforts (like weight loss) is what motivates them. Everybody dies but each person has an unintentional goal of how and when they want to die, and what the road to that, looks like
If you don’t have empathy be an EMT instead! I literally couldn’t be one because of how much empathy I had for others and it made me panick in chaotic fueled situations
In my case, it's the minor subjects required in our country's bachelor's degree in nursing (4 years curriculum) that I find a hassle. Like, two weeks from now, we have an oral exam in our Phys Ed subject - singing the school hymn! And at the end of the term, we are supposed to be proficient in at least two styles of swimming. I don't get it.
Collaboration with all medical professionals are worsen... Some physician are act like they don’t need to work in team...the alaways stay jn mood that the are disturbed by me. And a few Doctors are also prefers that they are superior in full medical system with is severely annoying
Hi , thanks for all your videos... great . Can you make a video on diet ... food rich in calcium, phosphorus. Tyramine diet .... like that please. Thank you ☺️
Our nextdoor neighbor who moved next to us 7 months ago is a nurse but my husband and I don't understand how because all she does is complain about us snoring at night so she hits and kicks our walls, she uses a ceiling Thumper, leaves an amplifier on the floor running all night and harasses us with soeakers on low and high frequencies 24/7. She doesn't show any empathy for us we are in our 50's. I don't think she should ever be trusted to care for people. I wish I could report her.
Hi mam I'm a nursing student nd i cannot see cuts nd bleeding nd stitches...nd can not even go to surgery room to see surgeries... I feel like nausea vomiting nd even like I'm gonna fainy away....what should I do???
I used to feel light headed just taking blood sugars. Some people told me I must not be cut out for it but I felt that was really unfair. I found an article from a doctor who taught med students, and he explained that our survival instincts naturally lower your blood sugar and blood pressure when you see blood, and your brain goes “oh no! That’s bad!” He said you can train yourself to handle it. Eat a candy bar or something high in sugar beforehand (right before the shift or during) and before and during seeing the blood, smile, repeat to yourself that this is GOOD, it’s supposed to happen, it needs to happen, it’s controllable. Like blood is the goal rather than the tragedy. It helped me like crazy! I actually worked in dialysis, administering it and sticking people and everything. I can’t handle my own blood getting drawn but I can look at blood all day long now
In a good working team its fantastic what can be achieved for the patient, and it can be fun to find out untreated health needs that other professions quickly can solve. Doctors, nurses, nurse assistants, training specialists, dentists etc do all play important roles
The more you are exposed to it the easier it gets. Changing a soiled diaper or cleaning up vomit is never not gross but it gets more tolerable as you do it more. You can also put two masks on and spray the inside of the outer one with some essential oil to really blunt the worst of the smells. The smell is what always used to get me but I find that helps a lot.
One get used to the smell of poo and urin, so that is not a problem. The smell of a dead body is not a bad problem either.. I think that one just needs to just avoid covering your nose from the start so that your brain gets used to the strong smells and automatically shuts down all attention it gives to it, so after some minutes you will no longer think about it. The worst smell from an autopsy of a recently dead body comes from opening up the intestines.. which reminds me of the smell of sulphur or eggs. Blood just smells iron so it does not concerns me at all, other than the pshychological associations I make in my head with blood, bleeding, accidents suffering and pain.. The only smells I still not can handle after years as a nurse assistant are the smell of vomits (because they unvoluntary trigger my vomit reflex). And some skin wounds on a leg can smell so terrible that they nearly trigger me to vomit, and forced me to open up a hospital window to get out the bad smell from the patients room despite it was winter and -25C cold here in Sweden. My own ear wax is also smelling disgusting. But aside from those rare examples do I not think that bodily fluids are much of a problem. One does get used to them. They are also all natural. We all have them. And once do get relaxed around them and can even joke about them. I feel more sorry for the patients when they happened to have accidentally shit in their bed in the 3rd time in the same morning and feel ashamed over it, than I feel grossed out and angry for all extra job it brought to clean up. It is after all my job to help them so it is okay for me. I have smelled poop a thousand times before so its no big deal for me. I rather feel sad for the patient who feel ashamed and depressed for the rest of the day who makes a big deal over this thing that means really nothing for me 😟
A nurse who just finished nursing school gets 26.400- 33.000 SEK here in Sweden. But once you get experience you can get much better paid. Some job get 60.000 each months, and then you add extra bonuses on that. Sometimes there is a lack a of personnel and nurses get hired and work 8 hours and get paid 12.000 SEK for just accepting to jump in and work those hours.
I am really considering nursing and am fine with body fluids and even death. It's just blood. Every time I get a blood test I faint, seeing it in the tube makes me feel really sick and the thought of taking someone's blood or putting an iv in them makes me feel dizzy and sick. Is it possible to overcome this?
I've spent years caring for adults with disabilities, unique medical needs and severe aggressive behaviors whom are nonverbal but very mobile and provided total cares. There is nothing that could gross me out at this point 😂. I would add to this list if you can't handle toxic work environments don't work in a traditional hospital on a unit. Every experience I've had has felt like an episode of mean girls. Gossip and nastiness all around. After graduating from nursing school my whole perspective changed. I had always assumed all nurses had good hearts I mean why would go in to a field where you care for people if you didn't right? Many are wonderful but there are so many caddy mean gossipy nurses it blew my mind.
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What about if you have hearing loss and require hearing aides? I’m just unsure if I could hear someone blood pressure.
Antibio therepie please
I passed my NCLEX !!
Proud of you!
I heard they changed the format! Any advice? How was it?
Kudos
@@Thatsjustme123 i think the changes take effect April 2023
That's amazing!!! Great job ❤
Charting...you didn't mention documentation. This is my biggest frustration as a nurse
How do you find time to do so with all the med passes and constant in and out of patient’s rooms? Not to mention calling up doctors/orders and labs and all that other stuff
This is the same stuff that I tell brand new CNA‘s as one myself and also a nursing student. I tell them if you’re in it for the money this is not the field for you. You have to love what you do at the end of the day yes we all struggle in majority of these areas from time to time, but we managed to overcome it and a lot of us really wouldn’t change the career path we chose I’m proud to be in this field and continuing my journey in healthcare
Right? If you are in it for the money, let me stop you right there…we don’t make a lot of money! Lmao 🤣 we did it because we actually have fun making others happy! Hard to believe but it’s innate
I have a few of these and 100% still think I’m a good nurse and will find a good fit. But if you dislike all of these just don’t go for your LPN cause we get the scrut work in the nursing homes most. RNs have a lot more jobs to choose from. Which is why I am going back to school
I'm a nurse from Indonesia
and I've been working in the central surgical installation for 21 years
and I like my job as a doctor's assistant during surgery
Hello sarah!
I'm a Registered Nurse from Bangladesh. And I proud to be a Nurse. Thanks for making video.
I’m doing it for job stability and 3 -12s. Not really into blood but being in nursing school has already changed that a bit
There isn’t much stability in nursing. You will jump around a lot. Three 12s aren’t as great as they make them out to be.
But if you’re getting your RN you can always change where your at. A bachelors is definitely worth it so you have many options.
Come back and comment after a year 😂 Hands on you’ll quickly find out if you’re cut out for it. I find most that choose it for “stability “ the 3 12s usually RUN and regret their choice . FYI 3 12s and 4 off aren’t usually consecutive. After 3-4 12s you spend a day or two recovering . Your 4 days can be broken up and each day after a 12 … well it hurts . I hate the 12s take M-F over floor nursing any day ! That burns you out quickly including those of us that chose nursing out of passion not “stability “ 🙄.
Sarah, you, your Husband, and your channel, are a blessing to the student/healthcare community! I could not imagine trying to get through nursing school without your channel! Thank you! Please keep making videos!
Sarah, several years ago I hated body fluids and needles, and I wondered if I could make it as a nurse. I got into my LVN program, and realized oooh boy this is real, let’s see if I can do this! And I DID! I was surprised that none of that stuff bothered me one bit because my desire to care for patients was stronger. I’m a senior in my program now, I feel like I’ve learned so much but I still don’t feel ready or qualified at all.. but your videos have really helped me along my nursing journey 💕🥰
By the way, I highly recommend people to become a CNA first before going into nursing. I didn’t do it, but I think taking that extra step really tells you if this is the career path for you and you get comfortable with patient care. And the other benefit is that you won’t have wasted time and money in an actual nursing program before finding out if it’s right for you.
at my 1st change of patient pampers i almost vomited after studies and 1 year of practicing i can even make figurines out of feces xD and have a lot of fun when patient paint his face in his own feces calling assistants to fecal incident and clear him together.
It is very important video, thank you. You are right, after while all body fluids or wounds or unpleasant bodies are not so shocking, we can get used to anybody.... I became a nurse at age 33, now working as nurse in ICU in Israel. My work gave me confidence, meaning for my life, profession for many years and also financial stability. Also my children see me as strong women that choose to dedicate her life in caring other people.
You forgot to mention being overworked, underpaid,unappreciated (by management) told to do illegal things or find a new place to work (by management).
Great video. You nailed in. I am a retired RN. I worked (2000 - 2015) several positions including bedside floor nursing.
I hate the stress. But maybe that is a Swedish problem because we are so understaffed here compared to other countries.
And the stress also makes coworkers mean and impatient towards each other. I am also not willing to sacrifice all of my free time and social life for my job. I am working to pay my bills and thats it. I am not willing to sacrifice my health, my dreams and my family for my job... so if my schedule is too tight.. then I guess that nursing is not the job for me.
And having lovely coworkers and patients is also very important for me. When you got good people around you then you feel better, and you feel like you job matters and it is great to help another person and even saving their life and cheer them up the worst day of their life. Your coworkers can make laugh, cheer you up when you are sad or feeling inadequate, and help you when you have tonnes of work to do.
But if your patients and coworkers are unpleasant, then it is very easy to start hating your job and getting depressed.
Bullies, people who say mean things behind your back are a plague to every work place and create dysfunctional workplaces. They drain your energy, make you feel insecure about yourself even if you do a good job, and they make you wanna go home as fast as you can. Patients that are rude for no reason, waste your time on simple things they can do themselves, and dementia patients who exhaust you by shouting "Hello" out from their hospital bed for an entire day can make life miserable.
And while most family members are lovely and a great asset both for you and your patient, are some very unpleasant to have anything to with. Some are rude for no reason, call you up and give you insults and accuse you of all kinds of things, and being ungrateful for tonnes of work you have spent on their relative. They sometimes think they know better than doctors that have spent 15 years of their life studying medicine, and refuse to cooperate and even to listen when they are wrong. So they keep on giving oxygen to patients despite they no longer needs it and only get negative effects from it. They flush food injections in fast speed into patients, instead of listening to doctors that it will create aspiration problems and give their husband pneumonia. 🙄
In the end I do think that the most important thing is to find a hospital and a floor where you feel like you have come to the right place.
That you got a reasonable schedule, good coworkers, and that you get patients which you mostly can tolerate.
And if you feel inadequate, then maybe you either need more training. Or you might have to rethink where you want to be working.
Previously I have thought that it was under my dignity to do simple jobs like like taking blood samples, vaccinations, psychriatic care and such. But if your coworkers are lovely and you feel like you can do your job well and get well paid and have much free time... then why not take this job?
There’s understaffing for nursing all over the world right now. The US has 300,000 more nursing jobs than it has nurses. So that’s 300,000 positions permanently open. But certain specialities and areas are less stressful and overwhelming! Like hospice, usually clinics, nurse educators, etc
I completely agree with everything you said especially the rude patients. I don’t know if the cold weather puts them in a bad mood, but lately I have had more rude patients than usually and it’s really mentally straining.
I am nurse trainee rn and I know I am not gonna stay in this field bcz I feel like although everyone says that sympathetic or empathetic ppl will be good nurse but what I am feeling like it's also a disadvantage.. It will be good for patient but if u are an empath , this field is gonna make u suffer mentally.. I have seen postmortem and ppl getting cuts and all & I handled it pretty well but when you know they are in pain and u have to treat them it's very hard bcz u feel mental pain and that's exhausting.. I am doing good as a trainee ; I have always been good in studies and in learning anything but it's tough to stay in this field for me.. I'll complete my training and then move to another field. Anyway I am grateful to have this opportunity bcz I got to learn a lot.
You're right. I think it's about balance. My empathy definitely gets in the way during death or codes. I have had to toughen up some.
You can comfort yourself thinking that you did everything you could to help that patient and that he was probably thankful for all the help that you gave to him. Death is also a part of life for us all. And all we can do is to try to make life as good as possible while we still living. If you look after his needs, and give him pain relief, give him some comforting words, and give him a friendly pat on the back, and show him that you listen and cares... then he will think that he has been given all the help that he possible could ask for and be very grateful for that.
It is a very beautiful thing that you can do that for another human being. And once someone is dead, then he does not have to suffer anymore. And the people around him get some relief and can think of themselves again.
My mother convinced me to go to nursing school in 1999 and I could not deal with the bodily fluids. I continued to work in an administrative position in the medical field but its definitly the reason why I do not have RN behind my name.
Proud to be a Male nurse.❣️.. From India.. ❤️
This is why I am a in center dialysis nurse 👩🏽⚕️ 💕. I love it.
I just started working at a dialysis center too about two weeks ago. I love it so far as well.
I'm a registered nurse from Bangladesh. I worked for last 4 year in dialysis Department but now I work another Department. Where are u From dear?
@@Whycantibelieve it’s not that cringy. Plenty of people from different countries use dear to call people. He’s just polite
Thanks so much for all of your videos. Other things about bedside nursing that make graduates run away from hospital bedside care and become, say, school nurses is the constant or frequent heavy load of patients that require frequently running back into the room to prevent falls because there aren’t enough sitters, or patients who decline and become critically ill on the floor and have to be cared for until a bed opens up, or working in bad hospital environments with screaming doctors or too much accountability put on the nurses and knowing when to leave and find a new hospital, or patients who might take a swing at you or grab you because they are confused and hostile, and receiving bad verbal orders from doctors, NP’s, and residents who should know better but don’t and the nurse gets blamed for following a bad order.
It’s a mess sometimes and a total disaster other times. If you survive and figure out how to navigate it all - God Bless you!!
I struggle interacting with anxious family members. I can mentally understand why they’re like that but I FEEL irritated that it’s taking away from time with the patients
Some specialties have minimal family member interaction! Like surgical nurses, clinic nurses, etc
@@Thatsjustme123 I take it you’ve never worked in a “specialty “ clinic chemotherapy, radiation, dialysis? Families are for most part very active in the care of their loved ones.
Get your social worker involved. We do total care that includes mind, body , and their loved ones . You don’t understand them if it’s a burden on you . Empathy active listening de escalation… That is part of our care plus some .
I am more grossed out by my own blood but as long as I have good PPE, then I don't get grossed out easily.
I am empathetic and love to serve and help others and get motivated by helping others, except I don't do well with death as I have not experience too much of it (luckily).
I do like the physical work because it helps my brain work better.
I love being of service to others, science and medicine, being a part of a team, and bodily fluids don’t bother me. My only concern is frustration. I’m halfway through clinicals right now and I don’t know how to handle patients who completely refuse to comply with their medications, or diet, or dialysis. I get so angry! I want to help you get better and feel better- why don’t *you* want that for yourself? Ugh!
I’ve found that the best way to help patients or get them to care about their health, is figure out what personally motivates them. What are their goals? Why do they want to keep living? What quality of life do they want? It’s also easier to give them proper care and directives when you focus your attention on those goals. For example, palliative care, hospice, people who have illnesses that can become very depressing, etc. Some people want to live as long as possible, but others may just want to see their grandkids, or see their children get married, be healthy enough to play with their kids or grandkids. Other people may just have discomfort and knowing what they need to change to help those discomforts (like weight loss) is what motivates them. Everybody dies but each person has an unintentional goal of how and when they want to die, and what the road to that, looks like
If you don’t have empathy be an EMT instead! I literally couldn’t be one because of how much empathy I had for others and it made me panick in chaotic fueled situations
Or a paramedic.
This is a great video and the desire to serve people at their weakest applies to all areas of health care.
Great video Sarah !!!! Love your content. I graduate in Dec
In my case, it's the minor subjects required in our country's bachelor's degree in nursing (4 years curriculum) that I find a hassle. Like, two weeks from now, we have an oral exam in our Phys Ed subject - singing the school hymn! And at the end of the term, we are supposed to be proficient in at least two styles of swimming.
I don't get it.
Collaboration with all medical professionals are worsen... Some physician are act like they don’t need to work in team...the alaways stay jn mood that the are disturbed by me.
And a few Doctors are also prefers that they are superior in full medical system with is severely annoying
I understand the frustration sometime empathy can go a long way in healing process of a patient.
I absolute love your videos…… Your videos give me so much insight on coming into this field. It helps me so much with school. Thanks!!
Too late 😭
LITERALLY
Never too late
Your HEART ❤️ has to be in nursing! I've seen some pretty insensitive nurses in my time...
Nurse Sarah rocks.
Every newly admitted Nursing students need this video clip.
Hi , thanks for all your videos... great . Can you make a video on diet ... food rich in calcium, phosphorus. Tyramine diet .... like that please. Thank you ☺️
bedside is as real as it gets, you spend so much time around people who need you the most around the clock.
Our nextdoor neighbor who moved next to us 7 months ago is a nurse but my husband and I don't understand how because all she does is complain about us snoring at night so she hits and kicks our walls, she uses a ceiling Thumper, leaves an amplifier on the floor running all night and harasses us with soeakers on low and high frequencies 24/7. She doesn't show any empathy for us we are in our 50's. I don't think she should ever be trusted to care for people. I wish I could report her.
Hi mam
I'm a nursing student nd i cannot see cuts nd bleeding nd stitches...nd can not even go to surgery room to see surgeries... I feel like nausea vomiting nd even like I'm gonna fainy away....what should I do???
Ot or pt is a good profession.
Same here . Vomiting 🤮:-(
You can give health advice on the phone. Take blood pressure and such on a local healthcare centre.
I used to feel light headed just taking blood sugars. Some people told me I must not be cut out for it but I felt that was really unfair. I found an article from a doctor who taught med students, and he explained that our survival instincts naturally lower your blood sugar and blood pressure when you see blood, and your brain goes “oh no! That’s bad!” He said you can train yourself to handle it. Eat a candy bar or something high in sugar beforehand (right before the shift or during) and before and during seeing the blood, smile, repeat to yourself that this is GOOD, it’s supposed to happen, it needs to happen, it’s controllable. Like blood is the goal rather than the tragedy. It helped me like crazy! I actually worked in dialysis, administering it and sticking people and everything. I can’t handle my own blood getting drawn but I can look at blood all day long now
Its difficult for me to watch someone dies whom I cared for..😢
Nice explanation dear 💕
Love your speach and understable knwoledge
I want to be a part of a health care team ❤
In a good working team its fantastic what can be achieved for the patient, and it can be fun to find out untreated health needs that other professions quickly can solve. Doctors, nurses, nurse assistants, training specialists, dentists etc do all play important roles
Should I still become it if the only things is I'm not sure yet if I'm intrested in how the body works and autonomy
I love ❤️ be a nurse I cannot wait to start my journey 😂
Can you address burn out? 26 years and I've stopped working but maintain my multi state license.
Bodily fluid gross me out . The rest I can handle . I get anxiety whenever I see someone vomiting. I am medical assistant now. Advice ? Thanks
The more you are exposed to it the easier it gets. Changing a soiled diaper or cleaning up vomit is never not gross but it gets more tolerable as you do it more. You can also put two masks on and spray the inside of the outer one with some essential oil to really blunt the worst of the smells. The smell is what always used to get me but I find that helps a lot.
That’s my issue. I’m in cna classes now to try to just prepare myself
One get used to the smell of poo and urin, so that is not a problem. The smell of a dead body is not a bad problem either.. I think that one just needs to just avoid covering your nose from the start so that your brain gets used to the strong smells and automatically shuts down all attention it gives to it, so after some minutes you will no longer think about it. The worst smell from an autopsy of a recently dead body comes from opening up the intestines.. which reminds me of the smell of sulphur or eggs.
Blood just smells iron so it does not concerns me at all, other than the pshychological associations I make in my head with blood, bleeding, accidents suffering and pain..
The only smells I still not can handle after years as a nurse assistant are the smell of vomits (because they unvoluntary trigger my vomit reflex). And some skin wounds on a leg can smell so terrible that they nearly trigger me to vomit, and forced me to open up a hospital window to get out the bad smell from the patients room despite it was winter and -25C cold here in Sweden.
My own ear wax is also smelling disgusting.
But aside from those rare examples do I not think that bodily fluids are much of a problem. One does get used to them.
They are also all natural. We all have them. And once do get relaxed around them and can even joke about them.
I feel more sorry for the patients when they happened to have accidentally shit in their bed in the 3rd time in the same morning and feel ashamed over it, than I feel grossed out and angry for all extra job it brought to clean up.
It is after all my job to help them so it is okay for me. I have smelled poop a thousand times before so its no big deal for me. I rather feel sad for the patient who feel ashamed and depressed for the rest of the day who makes a big deal over this thing that means really nothing for me 😟
Is the salary is good in europe or usa
I am from egypt the salary is 1dollar per hour
$50-65 per hr in california
Usa lvn 25 to 30. RN 35to 50
The US has the best pay for the cost of living compared to other western countries.
A nurse who just finished nursing school gets 26.400- 33.000 SEK here in Sweden.
But once you get experience you can get much better paid. Some job get 60.000 each months, and then you add extra bonuses on that. Sometimes there is a lack a of personnel and nurses get hired and work 8 hours and get paid 12.000 SEK for just accepting to jump in and work those hours.
Israel nurse salary 15-30 $ per hour ( depends on shifts and experience and institution)
I am really considering nursing and am fine with body fluids and even death. It's just blood. Every time I get a blood test I faint, seeing it in the tube makes me feel really sick and the thought of taking someone's blood or putting an iv in them makes me feel dizzy and sick. Is it possible to overcome this?
Take it from a nurse with 16 years of experience, don't become a nurse...
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Glad I plan on becoming a Healthcare Administrator.
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Not just handling 💩 , you must be able to eat after handling 💩!
Thank you
I like this profession
Could you please tell me about enrolled nurse
Actually you have to be ok with working with others but also being the Lone Ranger! Lmao
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I don’t like poo, vomit…I can do blood and pee
I've spent years caring for adults with disabilities, unique medical needs and severe aggressive behaviors whom are nonverbal but very mobile and provided total cares. There is nothing that could gross me out at this point 😂. I would add to this list if you can't handle toxic work environments don't work in a traditional hospital on a unit. Every experience I've had has felt like an episode of mean girls. Gossip and nastiness all around. After graduating from nursing school my whole perspective changed. I had always assumed all nurses had good hearts I mean why would go in to a field where you care for people if you didn't right? Many are wonderful but there are so many caddy mean gossipy nurses it blew my mind.
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I don't respect human .