 Hi guys, so today I want to talk about mistakes that new nurses make. As a new nurse, there's a lot of things that we do, not necessarily intentionally, but we're just so new and hyper-focused on all these things, and I made these same mistakes. I wanted to talk about them, one, so that we could just be more educated and aware of them, not to shame any new nurse for doing these things, because I did all of these things when I was new. But to just be more educated on it, and hopefully if you're aware of it, then you can realize that you're doing it and be better. So as new nurses, we're super task-oriented, and what I mean by this is we kind of lose sight of the whole overall picture of our patients, because we're so focused on going task to task for task, and just staying afloat for passing meds here. This patient's IV needs changed out, so we're doing that, we need to put a full in here, this patient needs discharged, I'm admitting this patient. So we get so caught up in all these tasks that sometimes it takes a while to really learn how to step back and look at the overall picture and prioritize things a little better, because you're just trying to go here, to here, to here, to stay afloat. I did the same thing, I was just super overwhelmed and involved in all these little tasks that sometimes little things would slip by, because you just weren't really taking a step back to look at the whole picture. The next mistake that new nurses make is not asking for help, or waiting too long to ask for help. If you are overwhelmed or busy and someone else is not as busy or someone offers help, take them up on that if you need it. Don't feel ashamed to ask for help just because you're new. I know personally I felt like as a new nurse I needed to do everything on my own, and that if I didn't do it that I wasn't a good enough nurse, because I couldn't handle doing everything at once, but sometimes you just get really sick patients, or you get patients that are more needy, or you have more things to do, you're busier than the other nurses that are on your same shift, and that's not a bad thing, but ask for help before you get too behind, because if someone's able to help you, then take them up on that. And the longer you're a nurse, the more you'll get comfortable with asking for help, or delegating things to your CNAs that they're able to do, because it only takes you staying late after work for an hour, one time after working a whole 12 and a half, 13 hour day, before you realize that you don't want to be doing that every single shift. The next mistake that new nurses make, and this kind of goes along with not asking for help, but is being afraid to ask questions. So you're afraid to admit that you don't know something, which it can be a very dangerous thing for new nurses. Always, always ask questions. It doesn't matter if it's dumb, or if you think it's dumb, because there's no such thing as a dumb question. Even after being a nurse for almost two years, I ask questions every single day. And if I feel like it's something that I probably should know, but maybe I forgot, I'll even preface the question with that saying, hey, I know this is probably sounding really dumb, or I'm just not quite remembering this answer, but what do you think about this, or this is going on? What's about this? I really can't think of a situation where nurses ask me a question where I've been like, wow, you didn't know that? You're dumb. So don't be afraid to ask questions. At least for the first year, you have that new grad nurse card, so to speak. So if you feel dumb, ask me a question, just say, hey, I still knew, or I still knew this hospital, or I just became a nurse a couple months ago, and I haven't done this yet. Do you mind showing me how to do this, or where's this, or what do I do about this? And as a nurse, you really have to have this whole teamwork mindset. And I've talked about this in previous videos, but you're a part of a team, and all the players are important. Your CNAs, people that are above you, below you, whatever, you're all important. So don't be afraid to ask questions. So those are my three mistakes that new nurses make. Again, I don't want you to feel ashamed of yourself if you're doing these things. I just want you to be aware of them, so that way we can be better nurses. Thank you guys for watching this video, and I'll see you in my next video. Bye.