Help! i want so to go into nursing and i am fixin to take phlebotomy .fear of blood?

Question

i am so afraid to stick someone ,but more so i hate the smell and sight of blood . but it is weird i can wipe blood off or see a bad sore and clean it. i never get sick when someone throws up but the blood thing ,should i not go into nursing ...so sad!...help i want to but i am afraid

Answer 1

I' VE BEEN THERE!!! not only i can't draw blood, but i can't even touch cotton balls and guess what? i've been a nurse for ten years and i worked in really critical care areas, pediatric oncology, cardiology cardiosurgery emergency room you name it and i've done it(but i am not that old!!) no seriously when you have an emergency situation you really wont think about it and the reward of saving lives!!!! on the contrary being such a chicken made me more compassionate with pple, since i really don't like the sight of blood or hurting anybody,i wouldn't prick any patient before i am 100% sure that i am going to get it at once coz i don't want to see the blood, fail (faint) and do that again, with time i became one of the best no need to see the vein at all by paplpation and anatomy i would guess it !!! i even became the best nurse in the IV team (we had only specialized nurses to insert IV on difficult patient after evrybody tries) as long as you have compassion in your heart and the love to do it you will not only succeed but you will excell (based on a true life story) when am at work i don't think of it at home i still faint when i see a drop of blood i can't touch cotton balls i use gause instead and now i am studying my masters in public health in university of liverpool. very proud of myself and of you coz this is how i started... another thing i used to hate caring for sores and burns but since i became very good in IV and extracting blood i used to cannulate my fr's patient while they do my assignment of sores... you can't be perfect in everything but you can give your best... and good LUCK not that you need it!!!

Answer 2

You have to overcome your fear and the only way to do this is to face your fear.  Mind over matter.  If you stick someone, you will not be smelling blood.  Once you start doing this it won't be a big deal.  Just focus on the fact that you are in it to help people (hopefully anyway).

Answer 3

You have to seriously think through before deciding. During the nursing course itself you'll be going for clinical attachments where there'll definitely be instances of seeing blood.

Try to curb the fear, or if you can get through the course choose to work in an area where there'll be less instances of blood contact e.g. outpatient clinics.

Answer 4

You will probably get over your fear the more you practice.  It will be hard at first, but the longer you study phlebotomy, the more you will realize that it is not so bad.  If you can do everything else, you should not let your fear of blood deter you from going into nursing.

Answer 5

Yes you are cut out for it because you are normal! Most all of us had a least a slight aversion to injecting needles into a person, either to draw blood or to admininster an injection. You get over it because you are a professional and because you realize that the patient needs these things done to get better. The more skilled you become, the easier it gets, and the less discomfort for the patient. I always think it is wonderful when the patient says. "Wow you know I did not even feel that!" after an injection or blood draw. Being a smartazz sometimes I will respond, "I didn't feel a thing either!"