So I was feeling better about taking care of my own patients. On tuesday I took care of 2 patients and did everything possible to make them feel comfortable. I've found it's a little frustrating when patients are crying because of pain and I can't get into the Accudose by myself without my preceptor present, because she was with another patient. It was difficult to tell my patient she had to wait... I did my best to soothe her pain though and get her mind off of it.
Thursday, however was a different story. Again, I took 2 patients (the only 2 assigned to us), did what I could without my preceptor's help, and thought I did a pretty good job. We actually discharged the 2 patients and took over another nurse's 5 patients. I decided to try and take 3 patients all by myself...bad idea. I definitely need some practice in time management. I was running behind with vitals, charting, and medications. It came to a point to ask my preceptor for some help while I caught up on charting. It also turned out that I forgot to chart some pretty important vitals on my last patients as well as my current. I mischarted some things on different patients, like DCing an IV on one pt when it was actually on another. I did that a few times. I felt pretty incompetent by the end of the day. I mean, it was my 6th clinical... I should be doing this stuff with ease by now, right?
Oh well... learning experience I guess...
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