Anon24

Thank you all so much! You all have been very helpful. I talked to my unit director and she said it’s okay we all make mistakes sometimes and that I need to not be so hard on myself.

So the other day I received an email that I had not completed a blood consent form before administering blood. I thought I had saw one in the pt chart but it apparently was for something else. I got consent verbally from the pt and the pt knew what I was doing. No harm was done to the pt. It was a very busy day. I had one pt crashing and ended up having to upgrade them to the ICU and this pt’s hgb was 6.5. Meds overdue, constant phone calls, call bells all around, I asked for help about three times before someone helped me. I felt like I was drowning. I just need some advice. Has anyone ever had this happen to them? I’m so full of anxiety and feel like I’m not cut out for this job, like a failure.