On Halloween I was carving a pumpkin (very last minute). I was home alone and was trying to get it carved quickly as it was already 6 and the children would be coming around soon. While trying to cut out the top of the pumpkin, so I could hollow it, I grabbed the knife and pushed it into the pumpkin. I quickly realized the knife was backwards and was also cutting deep into my thumb. The cut was about an inch long and bleeding like crazy. I immediately threw my hand up into the air and put pressure on it until I could find a band-aid, ointment and waited for the bleeding stopped. After it stopped bleeding and I had applied the necessary dressing, I realized how funny my reaction was. 3 months ago, I wouldn’t have done the same thing. Apparently nursing school has had more of an effect on my mind than I thought. :)
Clinical
15 years ago
2 comments:
Wow, that is funny...well not that you cut yourself, but that you have truly starting to morph into your role as a nurse. Personally, my outlook has changed a lot too. For instance, when I walk through the hospital on Tuesday, when
I am going to treatment, I often observe the people around me and begin noticing any of their obvious health conditions. Then I start to think, wow I wonder how their body is affected by that condition. (always in a caring way of thinking NOT JUDGING though!!)
THAT WASN'T FUNNY. And I expect you to dress my wounds when I show up on your doorstep with my arm hanging off or a huge hole in my stomach or something. PS You rock. This is the greatest blog ever. 100/10.
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