Vent: feeling pretty low
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The night B4 last I had 3 peds patients. 2 were in with respiratory probs and RSV. The other was in with GE and also happened to be the child of a well known jerk from ICU, not to mention the kid's grandma is the day shift super. So I was already dreading this night. 1st mistake: Went into the GE room thinking it was an RSVer, asked about Nebs and Dad replies"he doesn't have RSV". Now that I'm 2 feet tall, I finish my assessment. Since Dad is a RN, he is taking it apon himself to do temps. 2nd Mistake: Dad told me the temp was 100.2, but told the doc that it was 102. whether I didn't hear or he said it wrong doesn't matter because I'm the newbie. 3rd mistake: Mom of one of the resp kids was asking me about RSV and I told her the test would be in the morning. She told me her baby already had the test,and so I apologized. Well now this morning I get to hear how all 3 of my patients complained about how I seemed to be confusing them, the one resp kid's mom was sleepin the whole night. How could she say I screwd up when she was sleeping!!!! The ICU jerk proceded to tell the doctor, whom now wants me written up, and his mommy whom was pulling another nurse aside to talk about it. The thing is I wasn't the only one to get the 2 RSVers mixed up-2 other nurses did the same thing. One nurse was looking in the wrong chart while talking to the mom about her baby, and the other one asked her if her 2 month old had been sick alot this winter. So you see we are all a bunch of idiots at my hospital, it's just I'm the easiest to single out. I'm sorry this is so long, but now I feel pretty sh*tty knowing everyone in the hospital knows I'm an airhead. The funny thing is, is that I knew that Jerk would have to tell everyone about my mistake. Just wonder if this happens to other not so dumb nurses:crying2: