Comments on: This was quite embarrassing…

By: Courtney Adams

Courtney Adams — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:12:48 +0000

great article btw!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:48:29 +0000

I have had the same experience during my clinical rotations, thinking I was the only one. Any suggestions for overcoming these fainting spells?

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:23:43 +0000

I am just writing up one of my last three nursing journals I will ever have to do, less I go to grad school…Even then I do not thing that i will have to do the malarky. There are three clinical instructors this go round and I go the top bitch. She is a big ole Baptist lady who is all nice and cheerleader on minute and the spawn of satan the next. I got sent off the floor on tuesday for reporting an incorrect lab value I did not remember explicitly from the chart. I will not get intimidated again..Oh well I enjoyed reading your post it brought back some happy memmories of school…Be well!

By: marietta

marietta — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:39:05 +0000

For some reason, eating seems to help. I am in nursing school, and at night I work in the ER as a tech. I am always poking my nose into any procedure I can, and I had the opportunity to help a doc insert a chest tube. I decided to study during my dinner break instead of eating, and I too passed out… in front of the patient, the nurses, and the doc.

By: Bravo

Bravo — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:45:32 +0000

Also why during military drills you’re not supposed to lock your legs, can cut off circulation. Happens a lot during inspections, people will randomly drop in the middle of the floor. It’s kind of entertaining.

By: Lex

Lex — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:58:16 +0000

What state are you in and what program?

By: Miss FitsandStarts

Miss FitsandStarts — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 00:53:21 +0000

So this is what I have to look forward to. I can’t wait. *wink* We just finished our “Fundamentals” clinical rotation and had an 8 hour shift, but I was still up at 5 every morning because it’s an hour commute to the hospital. Mmmmm. 12 hours days. And I HATE breakfast.

By: Anne Basso

Anne Basso — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 19:50:37 +0000

I came SO close to doing that while observing in the OR during my nurses training. And the Dr. was being so nice as she’d delivered a baby of mine and was really showing me everthing and talking me through the surgery. I had to leave and it was so emberassing.

By: Patrick Higgins

Patrick Higgins — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:09:58 +0000

Interesting story about the nurse fainting and the reason.
I am looking for a reason my right leg has limited range of motion. When I bend my leg beyond 15 deg. it is very painful. Orthaepatic?
surgent? examined me, but could not find any place around the knee that was painful when poked
or squezed. I thought maybe it is contracture of tendons at back of leg. He suggested heat and physical threpy?. Xray did not reveal anything
of interest.

By: phimmie

phimmie — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:25:44 +0000

It’s all gravity’s fault, really. :-)
Your heart is an awesome pump, but it can really only do so much. When you are standing or walking,
it is the skeletal muscles in your legs that squeeze the veins to help return blood back to the heart.

You may have heard of airline passengers being at increased risk for blood clots.. the hours they spend
sitting still makes the blood pool in their legs and sort of start to coagulate there… then they get off the
plane, start moving around, and the clot gets dislodged, usually to find a home in the lung. That can be fatal.
If you can’t get up and move around, you should always at least flex your leg muscles frequently.

I think I even recently read a story about a guy who was at his computer so much that he also developed a blood
clot that travelled to his lungs.

And when we have patients who have just had surgery, or will be on bedrest for at least a few days, we always
put either really tight hose on their legs, or “squeezy boots” … these things that velcro around the leg, are attached
to a machine and deflate/inflate, thereby squeezing the blood from the legs.