I need to know if I'm the only one that has this feeling. I"m a new nurse. I'm 46 years old so I'm an OLD new nurse. I am in the ER, probally not the best place for a newby to start. I thought I'd be excited to go to work each day. Some days I dont want to go, but once I get there I'm ok. Just feel very inefficient, dumb and all thumbs, will it ever get better? Have I just chosen the wrong place? Would I feel this way anywhere I went? I'm wondering if I made the right career choice. Pretty scary after achieving what was my life long dream...to be an RN!
I am an old new nurse also. I graduated last December and waited until June to apply for NCLEX.
It wasn't that I was scared or anything, It just wasn't the right time immediately after school (which was a bear due to the way they treated students).
The school was really not geared up for us old new nurses, not kind on younger ones either, but they admitted they were set up to 'break' the new nurse in to the environment.
Basically that meant your schedule got messed with all the time, No flexibility or options for anything.
Really a bear for someone with a family, and I have always worked shift work, rarely needed extra time off etc, but the school made it nearly impossible to have a family and go to school.
So I waited, and worked as a CNA for awhile longer. My nerves were settled, I was more relaxed and I went and passed my NCLEX and slid seamlessly into my new position on the same floor that I had been a CNA.
For all the hype that graduating and getting your license is suppose to be, it's more like a huge relief than a big celebratory event which leaves you with that 'now what?' feeling.
Hi, I'm sooooooo scared about getting a job as an LPN. I'm scared i'll do something wrong or wont get along with the staff or something. I'm only 19 and scared i'll be treated different for being so young. I have yet to find a job but am soo stressed that I wont find one and I wont have my instructors to go to...... any advice.
honestly, yes you will screw up, your human. i've been a nurse only 2 1/2 mths have have made 4 med errors....nothing drastic that would hurt anyone, but still it happened. My Supervisor said that if we said we didn't make mistakes then that means that someone is covering up theirs. which is dangerous. i went in with the attitude that no one was going to make me feel stupid or inferior and they haven't. you will do fine.
honestly, yes you will screw up, your human. i've been a nurse only 2 1/2 mths have have made 4 med errors....nothing drastic that would hurt anyone, but still it happened. My Supervisor said that if we said we didn't make mistakes then that means that someone is covering up theirs. which is dangerous. i went in with the attitude that no one was going to make me feel stupid or inferior and they haven't. you will do fine.
Yes, mistakes happen. I'm out of school for 8 months now, and working in the hospital for two. I recently had a communication error that ultimately was my fault where I did not have the room ready for a surgical patient being returned to the floor by the PACU nurse. She gave all the warning calls and everything to the unit secretary that they were coming, and I assumed that the CNA would have been paged. Well, they showed up while I was in another room, and the PACU nurse had to move things around to get the pt back in bed. So I got over there when I got the page that they were in the room and the nurse was amiable with me, and when she said goodbye to the family and gave me the chart she asked me to call her. I didn't think much of it at the time. So when I got a chance I called recovery and get this - the whole point was to chew me out for not having the room ready and how it made her look like a fool to the family, blah blah blah. Right away I apologized and admitted I made a mistake but she was just mad! I told her to basically lay off, I'm a new nurse and don't have it all down yet, and she backed off a little. I felt pretty good going in that night, like yeah I'm starting to get this working on my own now, and then this happens. I hid in the corner at our station with tears in my eyes after this, because we are a small family-like environment, and no one has treated me that way at this hospital so I was not prepared for that. Everyone on the unit I told this to though said that she was out of line for being confrontational. I brushed it off and I'm not going to let it get me down.
We all make mistakes, the pt is number one and the mistakes that come with learning usually mean very little to the pt.
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