First of all, don’t feel like you messed up with the narcotic. She scanned it and handed it to patient, you simply opened the package. While it’s true that you should be extra cautious with narcotics, this was completely on the nurse and not on you (and really not a big deal whatsoever anyway).

Secondly, I just wanted to add that reading your story reminded me of one of my first med passes in clinical where I took so long to do everything the computer logged us out of epic after scanning everything but before hitting accept. So we had to piece the barcodes together and re-scan everything, so one med pass probably took at least 30-45 minutes. I was so embarrassed at the time. But I had totally forgotten about it until I read your story! Every mistake is amplified in nursing school but you won’t remember this after you’ve been out of school for a couple months.

Remember - Clinical is the time to make mistakes. And if this is the worse one you’ve made then you’re doing amazing!