I Don't Think I Should Be a Nurse: New Nurse Stories | First Shift

NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students · Oct 2, 2026 · 4m

"I deserve to die. I really think I shouldn't be a nurse."

Those are a real nurse's words — posted on allnurses on her sixth day as a nurse. She was working long-term care, a patient fell, and she froze. She never went back to assess him. She never filed the incident report. And she didn't realize any of it until she got home — when the guilt hit her like a truck.

In this episode of First Shift, Jon Haws, RN — founder of NURSING.com — tells her story start to finish, names the thing she's feeling (impostor syndrome, and nearly every new nurse gets it), and shares the three things that…