Newgradtrauma

I'm sorry it can across I didn't fully read your replies and only wrote about the lunch. I did a bunch of research and reading about the different fluids anyway and loved your info on that. I quickly wrote about the lunch because I barely had time to reply and wanted to ask a question. Sometimes it's a lot to respond to everyone and every piece of advice, that doesn't me I am not taking it in fully or am not extremely appreciative.

Maybe you can't give me some advice. In the ED I work in the charges are incessantly on us about if we have taken lunch or not. I never ask to go to lunch because sometimes I feel like it just isn't ever the right time. How should I go about this with my charge nurse? I'm never complaining about lunch, I actually tell people to lunch everyone else before they do me so that I can get my patients taken care of.

I wasn't the one worried about lunch. My charge nurse told me I had to go now because I had already told her I needed to finish some tasks on my patients. I'm trying not to read into your comment but I feel like it's probably unnecessary to add the last sentence.

Hello! I'm a new grad nurse, passed my NCLEX late Feb. I just need some advice or encouragement. I made a med error with fluids. I grabbed d5 w/0.45NS instead of 0.9% for a patient. The patient got the whole bag but another nurse noticed the error and I talked with the Provider about my error. She was not upset or super concern and we just went through all the proper follow up for the error, we checked her labs and everything was fine she had actually improved. I'm just having a really hard time not beating myself up about it. Logically I know experienced nurses make mistakes too and I've seen it happen but I just can't shake the horrible feeling. side note: I did scan it , noticed it was ns not LR and the order was originally for LR but asked the doc if she would be OK changing it to NS and she was. I didn't go back in to scan it in(this is where the error would have been caught) but I went to lunch and made a mistake. No harm was done, just to my soul ?