Nurses
Im a recently graduated nurse and I started a new job about a month ago now. Im working on an inpatient rehab unit which was not my first choice. My dream has always been to be a NICU nurse and it still is. I took the rehab job thinking I probably wouldn’t have to deal with much vomiting and of course my past 2 shifts Ive had patients getting sick and had to help clean it. Obviously I knew coming into nursing and being in school id experience it, but it actually happening has given me extreme anxiety. It makes it a lot worse too when my preceptor responds with “you’re a nurse you need to deal with it”. Nobody understands it and I know I need to “deal” with it, but I dont know how im scared its gonna put my job at risk. Im wondering if anyone in here is a nurse and how they manage it while working. Im not sure i can make it the full year (im in a year long new graduate program) and I dont know what to do.