Graduate nurse mistakes

[Lienks]

I am a recently graduate nurse who works in a female orthopedic and neuro surgery unit. I joined this unit two months ago as a permanent staff. As known by many, working with female patients have their ups and downs. I am currently facing a problem where I have become the units laughing stoke. I have made so many mistakes in my past two month, none of which is life threatening.

Some of my mistakes that I have made was not changing a patients diaper before my shift ended after the patient refused for me to changed them. I got scolded for leaving the unit with no new diaper for this patient. I also got told off for not having paper work in place or having the right preparation equipment for procedures and surgeries. My biggest mistake was when a patient dropped hot tea on her and caused a big blister. I didn't notice the blister until the next shift nurse called me to tell me about the blister. I know that this was my responsibility to check if the patient developed a blister. I put ointment and kept checking the patient but I never noticed the blister on the back of her leg.

Again I got scolded. Unfortunately I burst out in tear when I reached the unit to write a report. Now I am probably seen as being weak and can't handle the stress.

At the moment it feels like I am the worst nurse and that all I am doing is making mistakes.

Please se give me advice on how to prevent mistakes and how I can get back to a positive mind set because right now I feel depressed and feel like the nurses are criticizing everything I do. I work in a foreign country and I have no one that is the same nationality as me either so I don't have a person I can go and talk to to help me with my mistakes.