caffinatednurse

You are not alone. I am a new nurse and I have been struggling with thinking things are all my fault too. It is not. As long as you did your best and did what you thought was right for the patient that is all you can do. It took me an entire day yesterday to get over my patient declining. They did not pass or anything, but just declined and I keep thinking its my fault. It is not. I did do my best and that is what matters. It changes after being a CNA because now there is much more responsibility involved and more decisions are yours. yet- We cant control everything that happens in the human body, although we try.

Hello allnurses, I am a new nurse and was uncertain what to do, if anything, in this situation; I was discarding an IV bag and the tubing and when I took out the spike that was connected into the IV bag I accidentally stuck my hand with it before throwing it out. (not super hard, didn't cause much pain) I thought nothing of it because it had never actually touched the patient at any point and was hooked up to a pump making me think there would be no chance of fluids from the pt returning back up the line that far. Has anyone ever done this? Is it a common error? Do you follow needle stick precautions in this situation? I apologize if it is a lame newbie question, but all the posts here seem to help me out quite often, I just haven't seen one of this kind in the archives. Thank You