unique05

I'm a new nurse in ICU. I'm looking for honest answers to the question: Did I do enough for my patient. So here is what information I feel I can tell. This is only the second time I have had a patient die. They were unresponsive for unknown time period and came in full code with a STEMI, extremely high troponin, anoxic brain injury. Got them off vasopressors and later treated for hypertension and tachycardia. An hour later family arrives out of town and made patient DNR. Then blood pressure started to dropping again and they died a few hours later. I just wonder if there was anything else I could have done since I could not restart vasopressors. I feel like I didn't really do anything for them. My first patient death was different because I knew we had tried everything we could. But I feel like we just stopped treating this patient when they became a DNR. I also feel like treating him for his hypertension caused the hypotension even though I know that he was hypotensive at first. I keep going over everything in my head thinking I could have done more.