As a nurse I'm being taught that I have a 'Duty of Care' which basically means that if someone needs help eg if someone collapses, then I have a duty to help, I cant walk on and leave other people to deal with it. Which is fine because its not like I would walk away from something like that anyway.
But they've been drilling this in us so bad, I've been having nightmares about fires and trying to save people or having to give people CPR and about a situation I was in where I could of helped far more but I was too scared....
On Saturday when I was drunk walking home with my flatmate, a man who looked panicked walked up to us and asked us to phone a taxi because his phone has died, I asked him what was wrong and he told me that he got a phone call that his friend had died, and then his phone ran out of batteries during the phone call.
I tried to calm him down while my friend phoned a taxi service, but soon after he ran off, probably to try and pick up a taxi at a taxi rank on a different road...It just scared me so much, when they told us that we were constantly on duty as a nurse, I don't think I really thought it through, that was just a glimpse of what could happen, and it just scares me that its my duty to get involved in these situations....
I've been wondering all day thinking about if hes okay, if his friend is okay...I want to help people so badly but what if I fail? we just couldn't get a taxi fast enough to him so he ran away...I was useless at the time and I cant stand feeling useless to people. :/