Quote:
Originally Posted by engatwork
The oldest step daughter graduates from nursing school on Dec 8th  and has been interning at a hospital in the town where she is living. She has already gotten and accepted a job offer at the hospital. Today she had a patient that will probably die over the next day or so and she is all torn up about it. She called her mom all upset and crying. I asked her mom (who has been a nurse for 26 years) did she go through the same thing when her first patient died and she said yes she did. Hopefully, she will get used to death being a part of the job.
She made straight A's the whole time she was in nursing school  . |
Hmmm. Wife never had that happen yet. Her first time was as a volunteer and on her first night, she had a patient die on her right in her arms. The lady was feeling faint and she supported her and the lady slumped and died. Preceptor was shaken and couldn't continue but wife was fine. Perhaps she should have taken a job as a CNA first and seen if she can handle the dying thing before spending all that time as an RN? A lot of RN schools here are insisting on the student having a CNA license first which makes them have direct patient contact before allowing them to proceed.
Perhaps that will help her move into something like say Dermatology where there are less cases of death?
I hate the dying thing myself and I shut her up whenever she tells me somebody died. I live with the fantasy that nobody dies on her shift.