As someone who bypassed the medical field as a STEM career because she had no tolerance to ‘blood, guts or icky stuff’ I salute those who can do it.
If you can’t do the icky stuff, choose another career. Your patients won’t be simulations.
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BREAKING: Italy reports 3,526 new cases and 345 new deaths, raising total to 31,506 cases and 2,503 dead
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I've seen human blood and don't like it.
I've had sheep and goats necropsied and don't mind. Had a doe found dead that had to kids almost to term. Might have been too early for them to survive. The vet came over and found the problem. Heart attack - you could see previous necrosis on the heart. The vet stitched her back up. Had tears running down my face as I dug the hole for her and the kids. It was the best therapy for losing animals you hate to see die (time and money investment, and had great disposition which I like to see).
Got to the point where if a sheep or goat died, I was removing heads and placing them in a box for shipment via FedEx so they could be tested for scrapie. I did several. Would not want to do it full-time as it gets boring.
Side-note - a vet tech for USDAStold me the best thing to do for working on animals that are decomposed is Vicks Vapo-Rub under the nose. She said you won't smell anything else! LOL
Agreed. The good news is that Nursing students generally are not going to be able to waive clinical hours - they may have to do tele-medicine, but they are going to still have to do their rotations. The accreditation bodies such as ACEN are not going to allow that:
- see https://www.acenursing.org/about/news/covid-19-correspondence/