Do you ever blame yourself for things that you had no control of, or wasn't your fault?

[Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter]

I feel like as a new nurse things happen and you want to prevent things, but in the end you have no control of it. etc... behaviours etc.. falls..

[NO JOKES OR PUNS ALLOWED, BSN, RN]

Feeling constant crippling doubt and guilt is what separates us from the animals.  

[Davey Do]

Guilt is not an emotion, but the end result- a response- of a thought process.

If we can identify the thought that triggered the guilt response, like collateral dendrites to neurons, we can rechannel that thought process to other thoughts, hence other emotional responses.

[SmilingBluEyes]

On 2/22/2022 at 8:47 AM, NO JOKES OR PUNS ALLOWED said:

Feeling constant crippling doubt and guilt is what separates us from the animals.  

No I don't think so. it's neither healthy nor advisable. I am no animal but don't live with constant crippling doubt and guilt. I could not handle it if I did.

[Emergent, RN]

I've never done that, no.

[Kitiger, RN]

On 2/15/2022 at 9:40 AM, Tweety said:

But yes, I've lost many a night's sleep when a patient has crashed, knowing they would have crashed and nothing I could have done.  I fine tooth the day:  what did I miss?  what were the signs I could have seen earlier that lead to this?  I should have seen something....

I don't lose sleep over it but looking it over, to "fine tooth the day", is a good and helpful thing to do. Learn what you can.

Then, let it go.