Hello! I've been a nurse for 6 years now. I was in medsurg/tele for 4 years, then I was granted a training position in ED, February this year for 12 weeks, and I've been working on my own since May. Is it normal for me to still feel dumb or overwhelmed whenever I get critical patients? Like just today. I had a pt who was rule out stroke/DKA/sepsis, but he is DNR/comfort. The family wanted us to intubate him because he was desaturating, and sustaining at mid 80's despite being on bipap highest setting.
this is the 2nd intubation I experienced on my own, and the last one was more than a month ago. I still feel soooo stupid and overwhelmed. We were waiting to transfer the patient to ICU but his oxygen was unstable. I was overwhelmed because the hospitalist was telling me to start him on drips and my ED lead said that it's ICU's job. I think I'm starting to look annoying and not knowing anything because I do ask a lot of questions.
I guess I'm just ranting because I want to feel better and I want to know that what I am feeling is normal and that it will get better in time 😰🙁
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Hello! I've been a nurse for 6 years now. I was in medsurg/tele for 4 years, then I was granted a training position in ED, February this year for 12 weeks, and I've been working on my own since May. Is it normal for me to still feel dumb or overwhelmed whenever I get critical patients? Like just today. I had a pt who was rule out stroke/DKA/sepsis, but he is DNR/comfort. The family wanted us to intubate him because he was desaturating, and sustaining at mid 80's despite being on bipap highest setting.
this is the 2nd intubation I experienced on my own, and the last one was more than a month ago. I still feel soooo stupid and overwhelmed. We were waiting to transfer the patient to ICU but his oxygen was unstable. I was overwhelmed because the hospitalist was telling me to start him on drips and my ED lead said that it's ICU's job. I think I'm starting to look annoying and not knowing anything because I do ask a lot of questions.
I guess I'm just ranting because I want to feel better and I want to know that what I am feeling is normal and that it will get better in time 😰🙁