Using Dreams

[Big Blondie, ASN, BSN, MSN, APRN]

11 years clean.  Still having using dreams.  More like nightmares.  Also dreaming about being at work at the hospital for a 12 hour shift and I don't know where my patients are, or their rooms, being at work the entire shift looking for my patients, knowing I haven't passed any meds, or checked on them at all and trying to figure out how I am going to chart anything,  I worked ICU for so many years prior to becoming an NP.  I haven't worked as a staff nurse since the 90's, but I still have these recurring dreams.  Anyone else having crazy dreams like this?

[jadedRN04]

Yes. I have had similar dreams. My most recent dream was of myself caring for an entire 30 room hallway of med/surg patients and I hadn't even started the assessments or meds when I opened another door and found there was another 30 rooms I was responsible for. Very stressful. I also have drinking dreams where I wake up feeling awful.