I just started my first nursing job about 4.5 months ago on a very busy med-surg unit. I know everyone makes mistakes, nobody is perfect, but I feel like I'm making too many mistakes!! I made a few small medication errors, none of which resulted in harm to the patient and they were reported to my directore (by me) and a medication error report was submitted. Yesterday was just incredibly busy at work, everything happened at once and I felt like I was being pulled in a million directions. When I was checking my orders, I saw that one patient was written to have her foley cath d/c'd. Both her and her neighbor in the same room had foley's. On my notebook I wrote the order down on the right patients report, but when I told the aide to remove the foley, I told her Bed A instead of Bed B. I didn't realize my error until I was giving report 4 hours later. I called the doctor for Bed A (who had the foley removed by mistake) and explained to him what happened. He said it's ok and if she doesn't void by the 8 hour mark, just reinsert the foley. The nurse I was handing off my patients to saw how frazzled I was (I was almost in tears when I discovered this after my crazy day) and she told me not to worry, just notify the MD and she would take care of the foley's. I made a note in the chart but didn't write up a report. I'm just worried that I'm making too many mistakes and one day it will all just catch up to me. I know I'm not the only one making mistakes, but I'm just freaking out!! Help!!
