Mistake after mistake after mistake

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New grad here. I work in the ED and I feel like I keep making mistake after mistake after mistake. The mistakes are all stupid common sense mistakes and I am starting to feel like am I even a good nurse. Like for example today I was charting and two other nurses were at the nurses station. A patient on the monitor went into VTACH. I heard The beeping going off and saw a nurse looking as well and she eventually got up to go to the room, a few minutes later the patients nurse saw and also went in there. My preceptor asked me why I didn't go help and I honestly don’t know why I didn't. I didn't even think about it and I feel so idiotic and dumb. The patient was fine and never coded but I feel so defeated by all these mistakes. I love my job so much but I feel like I absolutely suck at it and everyone else thinks so too.

Naw I think you did what any person with your experience would do . I mean ask yourself was it my PT ? No Why was my more experienced preceptor gone when all this happened ? this is part of my training ?

SMH ?‍♂️ just take it with a grain of salt . Some ER nurses are special birds for sure . take as a learning experience for your pts . Put yeah not your fault it was your tele tech / charge nurse / that pts nurse job .

Stop being hard on yourself . Do me a favor after working there for a year and a half switch jobs youll thank me . life gets better. man

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Specializes in Med Surg, Tele, PH, CM.

Strongly opposed to hiring new grads to the ER circus. Or any busy specialty floor. Glad to see many reputable hospitals are adopting stricter parameters for hiring to Specialty floors. In no way is it fair to be thrown into a busy ER with no acute care experience.

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He had a preceptor just sounds like not a very goodone

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On 10/9/2019 at 2:02 PM, AMRN445 said:

I think the other nurses were either mad or disappointed at the fact that i didn’t take action and that’s why my preceptor had said something. She said “you never know when someone is coding and they need help, you should’ve gone to see if they needed help”. All while she is telling me this the other nurses are staring at me and continue to do it for the rest of the shift. I have been on the floor with my preceptor for about a month. I just feel like everything I do I end up making these simple mistakes like getting the wrong blood tubes or ensuring a lab is getting processed or not being fast enough with my patient care. every time I mess up I feel like I’m being ridiculed or looked down upon by everyone. At this point I fear that I’m the only orientee who keeps making boneheaded mistakes.

So what is your plan?

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