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First Night Alone: New Nurse Stories | First Shift
Two years on the unit as a tech — then her first night alone as the nurse. The quiet shift that teaches you everything.
"She'd worked the unit for two years. As a tech. And then came her first night... alone. As the nurse."
Not every first shift is a disaster. Some of them are quiet — and the quiet ones teach you something too. The night team took care of her with a fair, gentle assignment. She made it through. And she wrote something worth keeping: it felt "really, really lonely"... with no preceptor beside her. But she didn't mind the sound of silence.
In this episode of First Shift, Jon…
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