If you work in a hospital you will! It is not always a common occurrence, but it does happen. The real question is will you be able to handle the sight of blood, feces, open sores??? As a nurse these were harder for me to get used to than the thought of taking care of someone who was deceased.
As a student? Generally not. Most of the learning takes place with textbooks, pictures, models, mannequins and other students.
As a nurse? Not usually. Patients do die and they must be prepped for transport to the morgue or funeral home and the nurse must be involved, however, you will not be required to “work” on them.
i am not a nursing student yet, i am working on my general ed. classes and i have already had to disect a dead person. so i think it depends on what school you go to
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If you work in a hospital you will! It is not always a common occurrence, but it does happen. The real question is will you be able to handle the sight of blood, feces, open sores??? As a nurse these were harder for me to get used to than the thought of taking care of someone who was deceased.
As a student? Generally not. Most of the learning takes place with textbooks, pictures, models, mannequins and other students.
As a nurse? Not usually. Patients do die and they must be prepped for transport to the morgue or funeral home and the nurse must be involved, however, you will not be required to “work” on them.
i am not a nursing student yet, i am working on my general ed. classes and i have already had to disect a dead person. so i think it depends on what school you go to
No, but you do have to dissect a mammal and work with real bones and tissue.
i didnt
although we did see a corpse, we didn’t do anything to it, just looked at the inside
we worked on a cat tho, yuck,
Well people die and you have to try and bring them back. CPR,etc…