How are nurses trained to deal with needle phobic people?

There are a number of techniques.........My favorite one is to lightly scratch or pinch the skin in another area (perhaps another spot on the arm) at the onset of the injection to shift the focus away from the site of the pain.

i bet all of them, and i bet they deal with at LEAST one person scared of needles a day.

They just stab them with the syringe when they turn their heads.

Look an airplane is going to hit the tree. Jab!!

they stay sharp, and always pricks

Their not really. People for the most part arent really phobic of a needle. they may be really scared. for the most part having needle phobic come in for work is rare. they usually know that they freak out and you can work with them rationally.

tell them to close their eyes and hold the breath for 50 sec. that was my techinique

distraction is the key! If a needle is necessary than the recipient must cooperate and allow the distraction.

hard on them also on fear they might jump.

If I wasn't mistaken, I'd think some nurses were trained to roll their eyes, sigh and make sarcastic comments.

Have lots of patience with your patients! Try to get them in conversation about something else so they don't concentrate on the needle! That's how I dealt with it.

I am not really sure that we are really trained for it , i just think some have the ability or gift to deal with people being scared of certain things.

I try to work with adults with a cognitive approach and have had some pretty good sucess. It is the anxiety left unchecked that builds to a fevered pitch. The actual injection lasts only a couple seconds. After it is given I spend a little time reviewing if it really really hurt. I have alot of techniques that are distractions and really help to make it virtually painless. Not alot has been done formally to train nurses in general ...about how to work with needle phobic people. Good Question!

There is no such training. You just have to be calm and have patience. I am not fond of needles. I tell the nurse not to do anything until she or he is certain that they got a vein. It's all about communication between the nurse and the patient. Good Luck!

You are really not trained sp[ecifically to deal with people afraid of needles. We get trained to respond with compassion, patience, etc and how to react if someone is going to pass out or something. The rest is in the individual nurses nature.

Most people don't actually have a phobia of needles, they just don't like them. (In fact, I have never met a person who had an actual anxiety attack over getting an injection). For IV's (fluids, blood work), there is a wonder drug known as EMLA. It is a cream you put on the site where you are going to stick them that numbs the area in less than a half an hour. It really, really works!

If it's just a shot, I try to talk to them about something that will distract them and also urge them to relax...I have found that if you tell someone to breathe in through their nose as deeply as they can, and blow out as SLOWLY as they can out their mouth (like blowing out candles on a birthday cake)...not only does it relax them...(which makes the shot less painful), it also distracts them...you sort of have to concentrate to do that. I've also tried....say the alphabet backward...again...that makes them concentrate on something other than the shot. However, some people will not allow themselves to be distracted, and the only thing you can do is tell them not to look.