New grad panic attack

[NewAzMurse]

Hello,

I'm a new grad nurse working in the ER. I'm off orientation and working on my own now. Things had been going fairly smoothly until the other night I had a crippling panic attack, which I've never experienced before. All day before my night shift I'd been dreading going to work, which isn't like me at all. When I finally got to work I felt my heart start racing, I made it through report and as I was giving meds to my first patient and discussing what the plan was for her. I started pouring sweat, having trouble concentrating and my heart was POUNDING. She wasn't even that sick and my zone was full super easy patients so I had no reason to be as scared as I was. I came out of my pts room and the other nurse in my area took one look at me and got them charge nurse. Labs, EKG, and other various test followed and found nothing other than a fast heart and some HTN. We concluded, that it had all the elements of a good ol fashion panic attack. Which, I'll be visiting my doc just to make sure. But is this common? What do you all do to cope? And am I crazy for thinking I should change units? Now I'm the new grad that had a panic attack on the floor for no reason and was sent home for it...my pride took a major blow and my confidence is shot. Sorry for the novel.

[Sour Lemon]

Glad to hear you're doing well. I hadn't seen the thread before now, but was wondering how things worked out when I noticed the original post date.