cici87

OK, so I know I made a mistake a dumb one. I'm a home health nurse, I knew the patient's picc line dressing was due today, however he was seen last Thursday and I checked the date on his dressing and I swear to god it looked like the 18th, I looked at my calendar and the 18th was Thursday, so in my head oh it was changed last Thursday. Fast forward as I was doing my documentation as I was about to click on the date last Thursday and was in shock that last Thursday was the 11th! I feel like an dumbass right now. And the 18th was a future date, I feel horrible. And it wasn't the 18th it was the 8th!! I caught it myself and will go tmw and change the dressing. I'm 1 day off our protocol of changing it weekly. In my 10 year career this is eating me up and so worried my supervisor would get upset. If you're a supervisor how would you feel? She doesn't know yet as I found out myself after hours. I plan on telling her early in the morning and acknowledge my mishap. I know the patient is safe dressing is intact and it won't hurt the patient, I just don't like making mistakes.