So, it’s here, you’re doing it, your last placement as a student. I had worried a lot beforehand that I needed to know everything by the end of this placement, and that I would be ‘good enough’, not only for the team, but for my own expectations. But that first day in blues came around, and amongst the high fives on the way in (after the nearly vomiting with nerves in the car park beforehand!), I remember saying to one of the nurses, who stopped to give me a hug and ask how I was feeling. I confided “I feel a bit like I’m walking around pretending I know exactly what I’m doing”. And her response? Horror? Shock? Escorting me off the ward? No, she just looked at me and said: “Yeah, what were you expecting? That you’d wake up this morning knowing everything you didn’t know yesterday? Welcome to nursing. I still have days where I don’t know the answers. Every day you’ll learn something new. You know more than you think you do, and you’re doing just fine”. It is nothing new, and its widely ...