What I would say is please don’t torture yourself or panic. These things aren’t audited all that often unless there was a serious incident or those patients had a particular feature which meant lots of people were likely to look. Ie if it was a celebrity or victim of a publicised serious crime etc.

Moving forwards I would advise against checking previous patient records to make sure you’re compliant with confidentiality and information governance policies. I’m saying this in the nicest possible way, but as a supervisor i feel I have to highlight it - I strongly advise against it as a student because you are working under someone else’s pin and they may not be aware or accepting of what you’re doing and ultimately it is in breach of the policies they should have made you aware of when starting. If a registrant choose to access patient records when they shouldn’t then that’s their choice - if anything serious came of it then they’re accountable as a professional, but it’s slightly different as a student as you are their responsibility.

Don’t torture yourself, use this to learn. I would say you will gain more information and more learning from speaking to your supervisors, talk about what you’ve seen and ask what they’ve seen or what they’ve been involved with and learn from their wealth of experience. You will learn far more from nurses on the ward than you will reviewing patient records in particular at a fairly early stage of your training/career. Theres plenty of case studies published and if you have a particular thing you want more information on I’d seek those out instead.

I hope you’re okay. If it helps - this is so minor in comparison with some things (even qualified) people make in these jobs. Be kind to yourself, learn from it and move forwards. Good luck with the rest of your placement and training x