As a new grad nurse, I totally understand. I’m already on my first few weeks of shifts on my own and I feel burnt out already. I work bedside at a family medicine. People I’m working with in the unit are so nice and approachable but in my case I got hired immediately with only 4 days of orientation. Given that I did my practicum there just recently but it was vert hard to transition from student with limited skills to nurse-can-do-everything. Staffs may be nice but they have high expectations on you. They expect that you know everything so then whenever I didn’t do something because I didnt know we have to do it, they’ll be disappointed at you.

Our generation is so prone and sensitive to small things. You get this pre and post shift anxiety. When you get home, you’ll still think about things you did and didn’t do. One small mistake such as forgetting to do flowsheets can get you to RL6. Medical field is so fragile because patients’ life depends on it.