I'm a new RN. I know I've had some emails with some of yall back and forth about this but I just needed to make a good venting thread.
I feel so incompetent. Right now, my preceptor catches all my mistakes. But when I'm on my own ... no one will be there to catch them.. that's what scares me. Mistakes mostly like I forgot to add a morning med and saw it overdue later after med pass. Mistakes with charting. Setting the wrong rate on an IV pump. Being nervous (which is now diminishing). I've had 3 days on the floor and I don't feel my old self outside work. Last night I went home and kept wondering about if I forgot anything. I just wish someone could grab me ... shake me ... and tell me this is OK this is normal (my mistakes). I do see improvements. At the beginning it'd be 10 and I'd be passing meds. Then 930 and passing meds. Last time I finished med pass at 0845. I want to come home and learn to disconnect and not ponder if I forgot something.