need advice fellow nurses:(

[NewlyGradBSN]

I feel so sad because I am currently in the training period of working in a small provincial hospital. As a trainee, I am under my superior. So what happened was, there was a laboratory request for a patient that had the same surname and it got mixed up. Long story short, I made an incident report then got a memo from the chief nurse. I feel so stupid and unworthy to be a nurse but at the same time I feel that this is a challenge that I need to triumph over. Please I need your advice. My train of thought now is that maybe I shouldn't be a nurse because I was negligent and incompetent.

[nancycprn]

I feel so sad because I am currently in the training period of working in a small provincial hospital. As a trainee, I am under my superior. So what happened was, there was a laboratory request for a patient that had the same surname and it got mixed up. Long story short, I made an incident report then got a memo from the chief nurse. I feel so stupid and unworthy to be a nurse but at the same time I feel that this is a challenge that I need to triumph over. Please I need your advice. My train of thought now is that maybe I shouldn't be a nurse because I was negligent and incompetent.

Experience will be your teacher, As nurses we ten to beat our selfs up don't do it. You will never make the same error again

[noreenl]

As a supervisor, I have had to deal with issue before from both sides. I have made an error and I have had todeal with my nurses making errors. Let me tell you what I tell all my nurses during their inservice/orientation. Be careful and triple check before giving med, but no one is perfect. If you make a mistake don't make it worse by not owning up to it. I will defend and support you all the way if you make an error if you oe=wn up to it,but I will fire your ass in a minute if you le about it. We areentrusted with the lives of special needs children and if I can't trust you I don't want you working with me. I don't focus on punishment so I am proud to say that the few times an error was made the first person my nurses' called was me and we solved the problem together.

[NewlyGradBSN]

As a supervisor, I have had to deal with issue before from both sides. I have made an error and I have had todeal with my nurses making errors. Let me tell you what I tell all my nurses during their inservice/orientation. Be careful and triple check before giving med, but no one is perfect. If you make a mistake don't make it worse by not owning up to it. I will defend and support you all the way if you make an error if you oe=wn up to it,but I will fire your ass in a minute if you le about it. We areentrusted with the lives of special needs children and if I can't trust you I don't want you working with me. I don't focus on punishment so I am proud to say that the few times an error was made the first person my nurses' called was me and we solved the problem together.

How commendable. Even though I don't know you, from what you have shared, I would like to be like you when I reach a supervisory position. I know it is a long way to go. How I wish that I could serve under your supervision. Now, I feel like I'm not trusted by my superior. Onto the paranoid side of it, I feel like even my fellow nurses do not trust me. It's like I have a big red sign on my forehead with the words "incident report". At some point, I question myself also.

Do you ever get the feeling that other nurses feel their better than you just because you got an I.R. and they didn't. I know that it could have happened to anyone, and it is a recent event that's why I feel like this. But if not for the smiles and thank yous of my patients, I could have quit before I even started.