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Thanks for the advice everyone. I needed some encouragement. I just hate feeling so stressed out.. we do have a rapid response team. I brought in the charge nurse w my pt whose sats kept dropping. We finally got them up by increasing her o2 and finally got a decent bp on her. out of my 3 weekends on my own 2 have been this horrible. I am trying to not bring that stress home w me.. but i worry am i doing everything right.. double thinking it once im home. I double check w other nurses get their opinions when im worried about my pts. Its just extremely stressful and for some reason my orientation was not like this at all.. it was extremely easy id say.. and now that im out all of a sudden its hell. hoping ill have a better weekend next weekend. Just felt sick about my weekend.

Im 3 weeks out on my own from my 6 week orientation on a med surg floor. I am completely overwhelmed and hate everything about it. I dread going to work. I cry leaving work some nights. I work every weekend which is the reason i took the job bc it works for my husband and i with our kids. I just got off of my weekend and find myself in tears mentally and physically exhausted. we are understaffed and our pt acuity is very high. Just to give you an example last night i had 2 pts getting blood, another one with new onset chest pain, another one with blood pressure 220/90s from the get go, and my other pt whose sats kept dropping in the 80s with a bp in the 70s. We have 6 pts. We are always short a nurse and our charge nurse takes pts. Its constant chaos and im brand new and am hating every second of it. I was on the phone w drs all night (trying to get ahold of them) bc my pts were critical. I feel like it is so unsafe for myself and my patients. I just dont know what to do or if how i feel is normal. Everyone i work with hates it and complains so that doesnt help whatsoever. Im trying to stick it out 6 months but its so beyond difficult. Any advice?