Lola RN

Hey SarahWRN. I can't say that I will be much help to you, because I too, feel the exact same way. I am 3 1/2ish months into my nursing job in the ER and I just feel like I can't get my bearings. I have anxiety every time I go into work and when i leave I always seem to recap my day and just think of all the things I feel like I could have done better or different. Every one tells me that it'll take at least 6 months to a year to feel like you know what you're doing. I am trying my darnest to stick it out before I throw in the towel. So I hope you will too! Everyone keeps telling me to try and find a good mentor but it's so hard on my unit because there are so many nurses and you don't always work with the same nurse every day/week. But I know that there are those who I can ask questions. But I am relieved that I am not alone in how I feel. I hope that we can recap on this post in a few months and just laugh at ourselves. If there is one thing I take away from these feeling it's always remember how I struggled in the beginning so that when I do become that experienced nurse who one day has to work with a new nurse. I will try my hardest to guide and help them and not be one of those nurses who "eat their young." I am sorry if this doesn't help you but at least know that you are not alone!

I'm not sure. I feel like they think that I should just know. Not realizing that I am new to the game. And I that I am still getting my bearings. For the most part everyone is so helpful. I think I'm just being paranoid. I just don't want to be seen as "that nurse." The one that no one wants to work with or that they say really sucks. I'm feeling like I'm doing everything wrong.

Hi everyone. So I am a recently newly licensed nurse and have been working as a nurse for the past 2 months. Now I know a lot of you are going to say "what you are feeling is normal, " but I just hate this feeling. I am still feeling like I don't know anything, that the other nurses hate me, and that maybe nursing isn't for me. I am still feeling like I am the only nurse that feels this way and it's frustrating and upsetting. I am just ready to be the nurse I know I should be but I feel like that's so far away. Can anyone truly related and help me out of this depressing feeling? Honestly, I have been losing sleep over this! I talk to some of my other friends and them seem like they are doing fine and I just wondering why I can't be in that place or close to it. If anyone has some great advice or story to tell please share!

I know I have definitely learned from this. Always triple check meds, and to follow my gut feelings that if it doesn't seem right check with the physician. it's just so hard to get this incident out of my head because it's like I should know better! .

I am a new nurse that has only been orienting for about 3 weeks now. And I feel like I just don't know anything, that everything I have learned is nowhere to be found. I am not the only new nurse on my unit that's orienting and I feel like they are doing so much better than me. I know I shouldn't compare and I don't know what their situation is but I guess you can say I am paranoid. I try to get my confidence level up before I go into work, but then I get there and it all goes away. What scares me the most is that I think I might have done a med error and I don't know how it'll be handled. The medication was ordered under my patient but I wasn't familiar with it so I was trying to figure it out. So I asked a nurse that was in the med room with me and she told me what it was. At the time, I did not even question the medication relating to my patient's condition so I gave it. I am off the shift and I just keep questioning it in my head and why I did not verify it with the MD to make sure that that medication was what she wanted. This has completely taking my confidence down so many levels!! I'm feeling so out of control and that nursing just isn't for me. I hope I am not alone in my feelings. I guess I am just looking for words of encouragement or a sliver of hope.