[L-L]

You become desensitized to the ‘icky’ things. In school, people were always a bit apprehensive about certain situations at first. Either because they were ‘gross’ or feared caring for that person. Yet we see these situations every day and truly do not notice certain gross thing. I tend to focus my vision and thinking to particular items. I work in a critical care area and have seen many ‘digusting’ things. Yet I never acknowledge if anything should make me feel that way. I am only watching, someone else is feeling it. The patient does not need to be made to feel gross or icky. They are a human. We are treating them, and it is just the human body. You truly do get used to seeing these things on a regular basis, and it becomes a normal occurrence for you. While you care for that patients emotions and provide support, sometimes while providing care you must distance yourself and view the problem at hand just as a phsyiological process that is seperate from any actual human. The patients well being is first and foremost in the mind. What may be odd or icky for other people, is an every day happening for health care workers. You just become desensitized to it. It starts off as something ‘icky’ yet becomes something you truly are comfortable with. Besides, it is just a human body and human functions. Nothing to be ashamed of there. If health care providers are comfortable with it, it helps the family and patient to be more comfortable with their diagnosis.

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Name : L-L, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Religion : Catholic, Age : 23, City : Miami, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : Nurse, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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