Being forgetful
How common is it to be forgetful when you are a brand new nurse? 😢 I'm not meaning life threatening things necessarily!! I just keep forgetting little things. And yes, I write them down, but somehow with the moving 1 million miles an hour as a new grad day shift on a med surg type unit, my notes get scattered or the time has passed from when I should have seen the stinky note because I haven't been back to my work station in over an hour! Does remembering the little things get better? Examples : emptying the cath bag more than once on a shift, documenting my frequents (I forgot one whole patient to document their frequents yesterday and it's eating me alive ..I'm sure it won't be noticed but I'm terrified). Other examples: had an antibiotic scanned and ready to give but noticed the IV site was bad, so called VAT team to place an IV, they got on the floor at 530 pm and the message was sent at 130 pm, they had a list of patients before mine...when they came up and placed the IV I completely forgot I had the antibiotic scanned and set aside to give. I got chewed out by the next shift and I apologized over and over again... It was day 3 on my own yesterday after 8 wk orientation. So, just little examples like that. Anyone wanna give me their forgetful nursing stories so that I can calm down this weekend 😅😅😅😭 sorry for the long read.