Hi. I’m a veterinary nurse student and I do one day a week placement & I’m wondering, with anaesthesia being given through tubing/mask, is there a high risk of being exposed/what are the risks to us getting sick from this?
What should I look out for?

Also, I kept smelling a really strong mentholly/deep heat smell on and off today it’s stuck in my nose! Is this cleaning chemical? I couldn’t pinpoint where it came from!

Thankyou.

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I am a high school student wanting to become a nurse anaesthetist/ODP. I have social anxiety and sometimes need to take Ativan. Can I work in this job while sometimes (rarely) using Ativan or is it absolutely not? I also take 'major tranqilisers' (specifically Zyprexa and Abilify) but my psychiatrist said he knows doctors who take them.