Re: major error in NICU
As everyone already mentioned, we are human, and *all* of us have made mistakes! When you make one, you learn, and resolve never to make that mistake again.
I have seen many mistakes in my long career, made a few myself.
I knew a nurse who accidently pushed potassium into the IV line of a preemie-the baby lost an arm. She was horrified and almost quit. She didn't however, and is working as a nurse practitioner in NICU-she never forgot that dreadful error though.
Forgive yourself and move on.
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