I'm not sure if anyone has thought about this..I'm not even sure that it's a topic on the website already, but it's something I've been thinking about since I want to go back to school to study nursing. When you're a nurse, whether RN or LPN, you have to deal with vomiting, along with other sicknesses among people. For me, though, the fact that I can have a job anywhere in the worldd outweighs the fact that I would have to deal with vomiting. It's a good challenge as well, because it forces me to deal with it, whereas at other times I ran away. When I first thought about nursing school it was the possible math that scared me away, because I'm terrible at math and therefore have a phobia of math (heh) but I realized the other side of the coin. I don't really think there are emet nurses or doctors, are there? It would be rather difficult because to be both, really. I realize that there's all kinds of medical fields of nursing, such as labor and delivery, emergency room, school nurses, etc. but they all will have to deal with vomiting sooner or later, especially expectant mothers and sick babies. I used to work in a nursing home and sometimes I did get vomited on. In that instance I figured they couldn't help it and my clothes were washable, it wasn't the end of the world.


Has anyone out there considered a career in the medical field where you have to deal with people? Has emetophobia held you back from it? And is anyone currently in the medical field who's dealing with emetophobia?


So many questions, I have! As more and more I'm trying to fight this phobia, they just keep coming...[img]smileys/smilies_17.gif[/img]