Fiona's Blog

As a nursing student, I have this annoying habit of picking up on the attitudes and ways in which other nurses work. I had the joys of having to get blood taken this morning (long and boring story which i won't go into!) and the nurse taking my blood has really annoyed me!

Her attitude totally stunk!!! She acted all high and mighty and it felt like she thought I shouldn't know anything about the symptoms behind why I wanted the blood tests taken and then when we were discussing it, I told her that I was trying to lose weight and was struggling and she gave me this look as if to say "yeah I can see that"

I was so taken aback by her reaction to my discussing that with her! Its something thats actually a very touchy subject with me! I'm very self-conscious about my weight and to have a nurse look at me in the way she did... I felt so degraded and actually a little ashamed!

As a student nurse I know that nurses are supposed to keep their own feelings at bay and treat every patient holistically! If a patient smells awful, you keep your face unreacting...even if you feel like screwing ur face up in disgust! Nurses are never EVER meant to be judgemental and I felt like she was! I was so pissed off with her today!

Nevertheless, I had my blood tests taken and I get the results back in a week!