youngnewnurse

I am a new nurse, I got my nursing license in February and have been working nights on a medsurg/tele unit. Last night I had a young patient who was admitted for dizziness. She had been having the same complaints all night of dizziness and then around 5 am she called me in to say she had been having migraines. She did have a history of migraines and was taking meds for them at home. When i walked out of the room I was told the monitor techs had called because she had a run of v-tach....while I was talking with her. By the time I got the tele strips it had been an hour and I had saw that her v-tach run had lasted about 15 seconds which to me seemed pretty significant. It had been an hour since and there and not been anything like it before or after. I was undecided on whether to call the doc. I had a gut feeling that I should but never did. I passed it on in report at 7 am. The am nurse called the doc he gave orders for a mg and phos levels (the k was normal that morning), and said he would be in to see her a little while later. This is the biggest mistake I have made as a nurse and I feel as thought it is pretty obvious what I should have done. I'm just mad at my self, I guess. I don't know what I'm expecting from this thread because I know I should have called. But I just need to get it out there.