icuhermit

hello, please Stop beating yourself....everyday on every hospital in the US thousands of mistakes are made, mostly by MD,s...causing undue Deaths. everybody knws about it. right now as i write, mistakes are being made on every hospital floor, believe it or not. please refer to IOM report about safe medical practice. the thing is once you make a mistake, based on my experience, you have to pass the crucible of Debilitating, morale-crushing rumors, derogatory remarks and eyeball rolling mostly done "behind your back". THEY ARE NORMAL in nursing and hospital floors. everybody has to say something on just about anything. it's all about nurses eating their young, hospital politics and yada yada etc etc so on so forth ...you know what i mean. In all probability, your NM or ANM or floor charge could have committed worse things on the floor compared to yours. You just don't know. so cheer up, fight a good fight, be a sport and be the best that you can...which i honestly think you will be after this. the other day the MD's who indirectly caused the death of one of our patients (by mistakenly stopping anti coagulation on a massive PE), i saw him strollingon the lobby and whistling as if nothing happened. Also the other day themd who hastened the death of one of our severe chf patient (bnp 1500), who also ordered 2000 ml ns boluses, with the patient dying within hours......i saw him laughing the morning after. And beat this..... one of the floor nurses i know who left a patient for several hours unresponsive on the bed, had a code blue, intubated and had injury....guess where she is now? she was made the floor'sAnm/charge!!! so lighten up...just fight a good fight....just dont forget the nursing floor is a despicable world of politics....any violent objections from reading Rn's? I am sorry i am not responding to rebuttals about my claim of the floor being a dirty world of politics....the thing speaks for itself....a prima facie thing u know....i just need to share this to her to prevent her from being a cusualty.......