aspiringparamedic

Hey guys, I am a newly graduated baby RN working in a paeds clinic. It is an extremely busy clinic with a lot of movement in and out of the consultation rooms/treatment rooms. My clinic is unable to provide a preceptor as one senior staff is currently on leave and they're constantly on a shortage of RNs. I made the first medication error when I administered nebuliser treatment to a particular pt (whose parents responded and said 'yes' it's their child, but it wasn't). We do not have any IT system that we can scan the ID tags for double checking (this hugely increases the risk in errors made). I made a second medication error later this week, am supposed to perform incentive spirometer before and after nebuliser administration but I overlooked that part of it. This in turn affected the physician's treatment method. I'm hugely traumatised by the two incidents and feel extremely guilty over it. I am unable to forgive myself for the mistakes made, thus leaving nursing for the safety of the pts. Any Nurses out there left nursing because of serious errors?

Hey all the best to you! I just started nursing school 2 months ago! Working towards diploma in nursing(3 years). :)

Haha, nursing school isn't exactly very hard, all you need is good time management!