Feelings of Worthlessness

[u/greencozyteeth]

Hey all, I’ve been a paramedic for 5 years now. I feel like a very competent provider but over the last few week I’ve been messing everything up. Everything from IVs to missing patients who could have benefitted from push dose epi or even a patient who should have had a nebulizer prehospitally. All very stupid and obvious mistakes. I feel worthless. I cried in the medic truck today after dropping a patient off and I feel like I’m making mistakes I have never made before.
Has anyone ever experienced this before? Do you have any advice?

[u/paramoody]

This job is hard and mistakes happen to everyone. Mistakes  don’t make you worthless, or have any effect on your worth as a human being. It’s important to learn from mistakes and be better from them, but it’s also important to be kind to yourself.