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I want to become a nurse but.......? |
I am going to get accepted in the nursing program in few months but the problem is that I'm kind of getting cold feet. Has this happen to anyone before? I love helping people and caring for them but what if I am not good at it or if I don't like it. Today when I walked by the lab where they had manikins and I saw one of them on the bed I felt really weird. I wasn't scared or anything it was more like an uneasy feeling of seeing someone sick or dying laying in bed with all the IV's hooked on them and not knowing what's wrong with them. It's kind of a strange fear, if I can call it that, but I am not sure if I will be a good nurse. I am not squeamish around blood and "gross things" but I am still not sure if this "fear" will go away. Maybe things will be different once I become a nurse?! If there are any nurses or nursing students on here please share your thoughts and experiences because I am thinking about changing my major and I hate to do that. Thank you. Hi Choc, Okay here's the deal, I was in a similar position as you...only for me it wasn't nursing it was physical therapy. I was all signed up and ready to go. Well, luckily, my aunt suggested I stay with her for the summer and 'intern' a.k.a. volunteer as a physical therapy aide at a hospital near where my aunt stays and this was good timing because it was summer and i wasn't doing any classes at that time. Anyway, I was deeply into the idea of physical therapy...for what I know now to be because it was popular, ...not so much because it was my calling...you know, the reason why we are each placed on planet earth. Well anyway, I went on that volunteer experience really excited about this. It was a positive experience as far as the staff and patients were concerned. Yet I was SOOOO bored...I mean the glamour of it was all gone...something I couldn't have seen unless I had done the sneak preview tht volunteering provides. All I did (it seemed to me at the time) was walk patients down the aisle all day and splash them around in water. REAL EYE OPENER. Hence, that summer I re-entered school and did something completely different from physical therapy and love what I do. So for me, the moral of the story was, thank God I was praying for His guidance (which I suggest for you) because He opened up opportunities for me AND closed opportunities for me while all along I was praying and walking through the doors that opened (I took that to mean that this was meant for me since I was actively praying for this direction). My recommendations are the following: 1. Check out your local nursing home, adult foster care, or hospital and see if they'll let you do some volunteer work so you can get a feel of the environment and if this will work for you long term. 2. Pray to God every day for guidance and pay attention when developments occur that lead you into one direction versus another...all the while praying with each move. 3. The last thing you want to do is get trapped in a job that turns out not to be a match and then...trust me, end up years later going right back to school to get a different degree (perhaps the one you should have gotten in the first place). good luck with that! God bless you. i volunteered in my local hospital's ER. my second day there, i witnessed a woman dying. it was surreal...at the time, they were performing CPR. it only dawned on me later (when her family came to collect her belongings) that day that the woman had died. when this hit me, i fainted right in the middle of the floor (luckily i didn't hurt myself, but if i had, at least i was in the right place!) the "unknown" is scary and hard to understand, but i do believe it gets easier as time goes on. this sounds weird, and maybe once you get there you will understand, but you reach a point mentally where you block things from your mind. since volunteering i've seen 22 more people die in the hospital, and have fainted about 4 more times. it's only when i think of their family waiting anxiously outside, or their life before the incident, that it gets overwhelming. to do your job, you HAVE to accept the fact that things are out of your control. i applaud you for becoming a nurse, i think it's a wonderful profession. you obviously sound like a sympathetic person, and i wish all the best for you. experience You can always work at the Dr's office where you do not have to worry about all of the above. All you will do is check blood pressure, weigh the patient and put them in the room. There is nothing to be scared about. i must say i agree with chris (previous answer). i went to school to become a respiratory therapist. completed my college and got a degree in resp. i worked in this field for 10 yrs and i hate it. its boring and dead end position. i wish to this day that someone would have been honest with me about this career choice---but people will paint pie in the sky---and then your hooked. don't let this happen to you, do a walk along shadow with a couple of different people and ask questions about the field your interested in. do you want to work weekends,nights,holidays? of course not. |
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