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NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students · Oct 3, 2025 · 5m

I've been where you are.

During my first semester of nursing school, I walked into a room of 25 students who would be my cohort. As I scanned the faces, a chill ran down my spine.

"I'm the only lucky one here," I thought. "Everyone else is so much more prepared. I hope no one discovers how dumb I am."

This feeling didn't go away after graduation.

On my first day as a new grad nurse in the Neuro ICU of a large Trauma I hospital in Dallas, I was sweating, out of breath, and utterly convinced I'd slipped through the cracks in the hiring process.

I was certain all the other new nurses had gone to…