Tips for Nurses; How to Handle Needlephobic
Needle phobic are persons who are afraid of sharp objects like pins and needles. There are many out there who are needle phobic. Most of these cases had started when they were just children and carried on when they become adults.
Nurses surely had seen many people collapsing in front of a nurse or doctor when they are to inject the needle on their arm. This makes it harder for nurses because they might happen to inject the needle on a wrong vein. So what could nurses do to lessen the fear their patients feel when they see them approaching with a needle on hand??
Make the patient comfortable. This would be the best advice to any nurses out there having a hard time dealing with needle phobic patients. Nurses can tell their patient to relax, and to breathe slowly and deeply.
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Nurses should let their patient be in an effective position. Nurses can ask their patients to lay down in the most comfortable way. This will also lessen the chance of having injuries when the patient suddenly fainted.
Tell your patients stories or anything to have a small conversation. This is a necessary thing that nurses should do to take the attention of the patient away from what he fears. Losing the patients focus on his fear will make the nurse job a lot easier and quicker to be done. The patient may even not feel the pain of injecting the needle.
Nurses can remind the patient that it will last only for a few seconds. Giving assurance that it won’t take more than a minute (unless things suddenly happen) will make the patient more relax. Most nurses usually chat with their patient while administering the injection. So before they even knew it, the process is already done.
Nurses should advise the patient to look the other way. Needle phobic only feels their anxiety whenever they see a sharp object, like the needle. Nurses should tell the patient to look the other way so he won’t see when the nurse pushed on the needle and it had punctured the skin to the vein.
Nurses can tell patient that the procedure is necessary for the whole medical examination. Some patients make requests to their nurses not to do the needle-thing anymore like blood sampling. But nurses should explain that it is necessary for the completeness of the medical examination the patient is undergoing. Furthermore, nurses can add that his real condition can’t be diagnosed right if there is a procedure undone. Nurses can also cite examples that many other needle phobic had managed to undergo with the same thing.
Published at: 10/17/2015
