So I am a student nurse (yay ) and I am currently on placement.
The consultant for the ward was doing a tutorial session with some medical students about measuring pulse and blood pressure and he asked me to demonstrate the dynamap (the electronic machine we use to measure bp) to them. So I did, and then he asked the woman I meaured it on to do some walking around and whilst she did he asked me to sit down. And so I sat down next to him, and he looks at me and asks me what the marks are on my arms. And I told him that I used to self harm.
Then he grabbed my arm to show to the medical students and said look at this, what is this, how would she have done it. Mmm. So the medical student look horrified and are going 'well with a razor blade its self harm' and saying stuff like they are lacerations and cuts...
I managed to compose myself but when I walked out of the room I was in tears. I complained to the sister and he came and apologised, everyone on the ward was v.shocked.
I felt very embarrased and humiliated. I was at work, I was not a patient, and he did this IN FRONT of a patient and relatives who frankly do not need to know what I did to myself over 2 years ago. I watched a rather traumatic cardiac arrest yesterday as well so I felt v.fragile.
Was I silly for complaining to the sister, looking back it does not seem so much but at the time I really was destraught? Do you think people will think I am silly for getting worked up?
I am only 22 BTW and look v.young in uniform, he probably thought I was in my late teens.