jojo14627

Thank you that means a lot :) I've been a bit depressed about it. But I will pick myself up and take your advice thank you :) xxx

Hi all, I have been qualified since last September and started on the ward I'm on in march so I am still new. The ward is heavy and the staffing is terribly low... As it is everywhere but on this particular shift there was me and two other nurses who were newly qualified and new starters and non of us had been signed on on our meds... Well my assessment was that day and my boss had taken my paper work home to sign... I haven't really done many drug rounds as I am kinda pawned off to get patients washed for other nurses which looking back I now have learnt from... Any way so she did a few dad meds with me and said she was happy.... Later on that evening I had ten patients 2 needing more pain relief 1 had just come back from theatre the day before and the other I think feeling a bit left out (another story) and three discharges to sort out among other things... well LOL I had just received one of the patients ttos so I prepared them and asked the matron to check them with me she them instructed me that I didn't need a second checker as they had been done in pharmacy... So I checked them myself and noticed there wasn't a med on there that the patient normally took so I had to get the doctor to write on the TTO letter.... Any way in this time I had, had to bleep the doctor and was waiting a while .... The nurse in charge had asked me to do an sbar to take a pt to another ward and the ward matron was hassling me about an absence form I had to do because I had hurt my back at work so she the matron took the tots off me and put them in our tots cupboard..... She hadn't she had put them in another cupboard! So when I took the meds out of the the cupboard the actual ttos cupboard they weren't his mistake one.... I didn't check the patients meds with the patient... I apologised for the wait and explained I had been trying to get the other med that wasn't on there written by the doctor and explained to keep taking that one as regularly advised by his gp.... The wife called us and said she had someone else's meds my heart sank when the ward clerk told me in front of a hca who then started to laugh at me and I said it's bloody well not funny... So I stopped the med round what I was doing and hunted for the ttos which were found in an unlocked cupboard!! Where the matron had put them to do my bloody absence letter.... any by way I discharged another lady before we got the call from the wife and I had gone through her tots with her so why didn't I with him!! So I think I've learnt a lesson :,( I'm one of these people who tries to help everyone else but then I get swamped down and can never say no... so 1. When I'm giving out ttos I'm going to wear the do not disturb tabard 2. I'm going to, while I'm still learning, get a more senior nurse to check ttos with me (even tho matron said that doesn't need doing) 3. Tell people politely that I can't do sbars and absence forms while I am doing ttos. Because I don't want to make a mistake. 4. CHECK CHECK AND RECHECK NAME, Dob, address, dosage, route, and if I'm not happy to ask some one. anyway doing a datex with the ward manager Sunday... Not the matron and she's lovely so I called her after it happened telling her I wanted to quit nursing and I just didn't think I was set to be a nurse and she's told me we will do my meds again and this time I AM when I'm working with other nurses insisting that I do meds in my own bay. I feel stupid and awful and I feel very deflated can an any one reccomend anything they do to make sure they don't make errors like this?? Thank you guys xxx

Oh my word bless you!!! Xxx

I love this thank you:D I've just qualified and I'm dreading my first night shifts :-/ xx

Hi everyone, would ssomeone please help me I'm so confused with this nclex and cgfns exam things. I have been told I have to take both tests. I am a British citizen and my boyfriend is American. We are planning on getting married in the future and moving back to the states with him. I am an RN and I'm looking for advice on everything about the exams and prep. I have started to buy books and flash cards for medications. I just want to find all this out so I can have a clear head to start studying. Thank you for your help in advance :)