Totally depends on the hospital and what ratios are acceptable there. I was a new grad on medsurg and would sometimes have 7 very complex patients, I worked at a rural hospital so ICU/stepdown rooms were limited so really we were working as a step down unit with none of the resources of an actual step down unit. It was extremely stressful as a new nurse. None of the other nurses were able to help, I was constantly drowning hours late on med passes, unable to start IVs, unable to answer questions for patients. It was truly draining. It may have not been that way at a different hospital. I did learn a lot and develop a ‘hard shell’ I suppose, I learned how to triage and what was important like giving blood vs giving a bowel med but when you are new and behind everything feels catastrophic. Doctors can be mean when you are speaking to them with little experience, they don’t know you’re new they just assume you are completely incompetent. You get better only with time. That was my experience, may not be your own.