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Embarrassed at mistake 1 month into new job

LegacyUser · 2019-04-26 20:19:12

I recently started a new job in the UK in a big hospital, I was thrilled at getting the job, I went back to college to study after working in an office doing something I hated for 4 years. But I made a huge mistake the other day and I was called out on it by someone, I apologised profusely but I am absolutely mortified now…

26-04-2019 09:19PM

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I recently started a new job in the UK in a big hospital, I was thrilled at getting the job, I went back to college to study after working in an office doing something I hated for 4 years.

But I made a huge mistake the other day and I was called out on it by someone, I apologised profusely but I am absolutely mortified now and am dreading going back onto that ward now.

Essentially, I work as an allied healthcare professional (physio, speech and language therapist, etc). I was on holiday for 10 days and came back to work just after Easter, my manager is quite demanding, I have a lot of patients to see each day and I was really feeling the pressure coming back after my holiday. I had a lot to get through on day 1. So I went to see a patient that I had reviewed 3 or 4 times previously and each time I had asked the nurses to do something for me, it was part of their job and affecting the patients care, and each time I came back it wasn't done. When I reviewed this patient I was really frustrated that it still wasn't done as it was limiting what I could do with the patient. I left a note in the medical notes containing "X still wasn't done despite a number of requests", I know I shouldn't have worded it like that and I Really do not want to make excuses.

But then yesterday one of the nurse managers came up to me and basically said that a student nurse had got really upset over my note and that I had written it in a disrespectful, and derogatory way and that she should report me to my manager (she didn't actually confirm if she would). I apologised profusely and tried to say that I really hadn't meant it that way, that I had just been frustrated on the day but I should never had written it and it would never happen again. Reading back over my note now I am mortified, I wrote it in the heat of the moment and didn't even know if it would be read.

I didn't have to go on that ward today but I'm already dreading monday. I know I'm potentially overthinking it but I am petrified of her reporting it to my manager, just a month into my new job that I love so much.

I don't know if anyone can offer any advice or reassurance

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