Nurses Can You Help Me?!
Question: Im thinking of going to nursing school.
Can you go through nursing school without cleaning up someones poop or vomit? I want to be a doctors office ob nurse or something that doesnt involve poop or vomit. Is it possible?
Answers: Im thinking of going to nursing school.
Can you go through nursing school without cleaning up someones poop or vomit? I want to be a doctors office ob nurse or something that doesnt involve poop or vomit. Is it possible?
No, it is NOT possible and you have to let your fellow nurses draw your blood and you draw their's, too. If you want to make money and be in health care without those things, try medical coding.
Good luck with that. With clinicals... you won't have much of a choice. You can definitely find a job in nursing that doesn't involve vomit or poop, but you'll almost definitely find yourself cleaning it up or getting splashed while enrolled in a nursing program (and at random points in your mostly poopless and pukeless career)
Nope, you can't do that. Taking care of sick people means sooner or later you have to help clean up after the less attractive parts of human life. You will have to learn to do it all. And ladies in labor often do both. Oh, and pregnant ladies quite often suffer from a little thing called morning sickness. It's not always restricted to the morning, and it can happen anywhere, anytime. Or they reflux without warning, and lunch comes up and out. Sorry, but to be a nurse means dealing with all the necessary cleanup. If you can't handle those two things, or aren't willing to- better seek out another career.
I did both while having my daughter so obstetrics definitely involves poop and vomit. If you can't find a way to separate yourself from the gross-out factor, you should probably consider a different profession.