Made a mistake and feel awful
I made a mistake at work a week ago around 2am and I’m riddled with anxiety from it and feel terrible. We second check all our IVs however this mistake still happened, I was meant to put up 0.9% saline with two additional ingredients however I put the two additional ingredients up without the 0.9%. Basically I missed an ingredient rather than giving something extra I shouldn’t have. Patient was fine and blood results were fine so no injury from this mistake but it was noticed by another nurse and they obviously followed the protocol of reporting it (as they should). I suffer with anxiety anyway and I’m scared of what the consequences will be and also I’m so anxious about ever making a mistake again. My only previous mistake has been giving a medication that was appropriate and required however the doctor had written their name not signed in the box so it was recorded as an error as they hadn’t completed the prescription properly. Feeling really worried and rubbish and I just don’t know how to improve going forward. I’m so scared that I’m going to have to redo my medicines management and have the shame of being taken off medicines in the meantime. I work in the ED so it can be really crazy sometimes and this has made me feel like I’m not good at my job. Any advice on what I should do next I would be really grateful for, I’ve had no management feedback yet so idk what they will do but the nurse who noticed and reported it let me and the other nurse who signed for the fluids know about the mistake.
I’ve been worrying about it since especially as the nurse who second checked me has never made a mistake before, so I feel like I’m holding the responsibility. I feel so anxious that I could make a mistake in the future and cause someone harm.