Everything Went Wrong: New Nurse Stories | First Shift

NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students · Oct 9, 2026 · 5m

Six months pregnant, first day in the ER — everything that could go wrong did. The disaster shift every nurse survives.

"She was six months pregnant. It was her first day in the ER. And everything that could possibly go wrong... went wrong."

She'd been out of clinical for four months — a new grad, back for her first ER shift. Her hands were so sweaty the sterile gloves wouldn't go on. She blanked on the foley kit, forgot IVs she'd done as a student, pulled the glucometer strip out mid-reading, forgot to hit START on the blood pressure cuff. In her own words: "Everything that could have…