Pepper The Cat

I made a similar mistake and I had been nursing for 38 years. It's a mistake. As long as you are up front and truthful about what happened you will be OK. I understand how you feel. This mistake plus a couple of other events coupled with Covid led to my early retirement

Retired at 58. My plan had been to work until 60 and then maybe drop down to casual before fully retiring ay 65 Covid changed that. I was bullied. My assignments were heavy. It was bad. It was so bad that on my way to work I would think " maybe I'll get hit by a bus today and won't have to go to work" I was lucky. I had a great pension plan . I realized I had hit the time when working longer would not change my pension. It's been 3 years and I am so much happier now. I hope you can find a solution that works for you

Every nurse has made at least one med error in her career. We are human. Meds get missed. Just look at what happened , learn from it and move on. No one is talking about you.

Not everything is about you. Just because someone stops talking when you enter the room doesn't mean they were talking about you. You may not like everyone you work with and that's fine. But you still need to work with them. Greys Anatomy is not real.

I retired in March 2022 and I miss nothing.

Oh the red jello thread. So much fun!

Oh gosh. That's classic! Back when Allnurses was a lot of fun. I still remember a thread I started asking if people said M.R.S.A or mersa. Lots of feedback.

Present!

What was the med we gave sublingual for high BP? Adalat? You'd pierce then end of the capsule and squeeze the contents under the tongue.

Oh, nitropaste? Remember that? The dose would be 1 inch, 1 1/2 inches etc. you'd measure it out on a paper patch. Oh, the headache if you got some on your finger!

Nothing worse than going home with the narc keys!

Smoking lounges for the patients! long term patients smoking in bed!

Remember the huge bottles of stock meds in the med room? med cards and med trays! Paper charts that exploded when dropped.

Charting in 3 colours. Double bagging isolation linen bags. People smoking at the nurses station. Narcotic keys.

I am in Ontario and have never heard of travel nursing. If you want to work in Quebec you need to be fluent in French, including medical terms.