Hang in there! It is very rough I know, I just started my first nursing job a couple of weeks ago on a skilled/sub acute unit. I have around 18-20 patients a day. As a new grad I am feeling overwhelmed. The unit is completley disorganized, labs are not followed up on, meds not re-filed and when I catch mistakes I have to cal the doctor and I am the one to be ******* at. I am giving 110% to do things right and fix the mess that the previous nurses no longer working there created. I feel that the term, "eating your young" still exist as I have experienced on several instances where a nurse has told me to do something a certain way and later to find out it is totally wrong! They don't tell me it's wrong, they just run to the supervisor and all other nurses to tell them my mistakes and then laugh as it is funny! I am so frustrated. I am not liking my first nursing experience at all! The first year of being a nurse sucks!