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Nurse turnover among new grads has intensified post-pandemic, hospitals are understaffed and preceptors are overburdened, and nurses are increasingly vocal on social platforms about unmet transition support—creating both a distribution channel and validated demand signal that didn't exist at this scale before.
New graduate nurses experience acute competence crises, emotional breakdowns, and high attrition within their first year, yet have no dedicated platform to bridge the gap between nursing school and real clinical practice—particularly around procedural confidence, emotional regulation, and specialty-specific onboarding.
New graduate nurses (0–18 months post-licensure) across specialties including ER, ICU, OR, NICU, and PCU
A structured digital coaching and peer-mentorship platform specifically for the new grad transition year, combining bite-sized specialty-specific clinical scenario walkthroughs (e.g., sterile opening in OR, managing critical labs on PCU, ER triage communication) with anonymous peer cohort groups and licensed counselor check-ins. The platform tracks emotional and competence milestones, flags burnout risk patterns, and connects users with experienced nurses who've navigated the same specialty transition.
The real-world evidence the pipeline drew on to generate this idea.
Currently a new grad NICU nurse at a Level III NICU in the Midwest, coming up on my 1 year mark. I'm planning to quit and move back to CA (LA/OC area), where I'm originally from. I'm 75% sure I want to do something besides the NICU. Honestly, all I wanted out of nursing school was to work in the NICU, and now I don't even know if it's what I want to keep doing. It's been stressful, anxiety-inducing, and overstimulating. I feel like I'm on edge and high alert for all 12 hours of my shift. It’s gotten easier as times gone by but I just don’t know... It's kind of heartbreaking because I worked so hard to get here, and now I'm questioning if it's actually for me…. honestly nursing in general. Love when the babies are stable. I love the smooth, calm shifts, but when they're chaotic... I don't know if the stress of critical care is for me lol. I considered mother baby but ehh? Not really into the idea of mom baby med surg. I'm also wondering if it's the 3 12s nights that's getting to me. I w
Been an RN for 17 years and I’ve never felt as incompetent as I do now. This is no joke. And one of the dumbest things that I have major insecurities about is opening sterile! It is not as easy as it looks! This will be week 3 in the OR and I’m feeling nauseous…. It’s so hard. Please tell me it gets easier. It is so hard to feel this incompetent as a seasoned nurse. It’s very humbling to say the least to have nurses that are your children’s age as your preceptors telling you what to do. I wish I could fast forward this next 12 months because I am struggling. submitted by /u/Picking_Seashells_83 [link] [comments]
im a new grad nurse who works on a neuro/tele med surg unit. im also on nights and i hate it. i love my manager and my coworkers but i am just so unstable and burnt out already, and i started this job in march and it’s only july. im also a newly diagnosed autistic with adhd i just hate this job. i hate the night shift so badly. the sleep schedule is terrible, im so depressed and i can’t eat. the shifts are constant work and i obviously don’t get any breaks. im also baseline chronically fatigued so im always sleeping when im at home. i sleep through my hunger cues and eat so much less. im too tired to cook most of the time and im so exhausted. however i don’t think i could make it on dayshift at this current point. im a slow learner and the workload on nights is much easier, except im still struggling heavily. my manager says im doing great but im hiding all of it inside. i feel like if i had a more predictable day at work i would like that but i just can’t be on nights. it’s just not d
I loved nursing school and loved precepting in the ER. Now that I’m a nurse i just kind of feel stupid. I feel like I’m just still waiting for someone to hang over my shoulder or to tell me what to do. I have no idea how to take any charge and do things myself. I’m terrified to do anything alone. I ask 8 billion questions before doing something as simple as giving a few pills in a cup to a patient. I feel like everyone else is a nurse and I’m just pretending to be one. I feel so dumb, i don’t know how to chart, i don’t know how to mix the meds, i don’t know the flow of anything. I just feel incompetent. I guess i just need to know if any others struggled this bad and if it ever gets better. submitted by /u/Ok_Preference_8804 [link] [comments]
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Please tell me that when I leave this godforsaken unit I’m going to be a great fckn nurse submitted by /u/CareBusy3339 [link] [comments]
Six months in and I've consumed an embarrassing amount of free food that just appears in the break room. Someone on nights always leaves those little cheese and cracker packs. Day shift has an unspoken rule that whoever gets the last of the coffee makes a new pot or faces social exile. There's a nurse on my unit who brings in homemade tamales every time she picks up an extra shift, and at this point I think half the staff signs up just because of that. It got me thinking about how much of unit culture is built around food and these tiny rituals that nobody ever officially announced but everyone just knows. New grads catch on fast. You learn the charge nurse rotation and you learn the snack schedule, and somehow both feel equally important for survival. Does every floor have that one person who singlehandedly keeps morale alive with their Costco runs or slow cooker chili or whatever it is? Or is it more chaotic on some units where nobody does any of that and the break room is just sad g
I never realized how much your state can change your entire view of nursing. I spent my first year as a nurse in Missouri. Most shifts were 1:5 or 1:6 with high-acuity and heavy patients. We had one CNA cover 20 patients. Breaks and lunches usually didn’t happen, and if they did, you felt guilty taking them because everyone else was drowning. My hospital had 120 beds but could only staff about 50 because nurses kept leaving. I often left 30-45 min past my shift. The pay wasn’t much better. I was barely keeping up with rent and the rising cost of living. I honestly got to the point where I started thinking maybe nursing just wasn’t for me. Then I moved to Oregon. Now I make about double what I was making before. We have a mandated 1:4 ratio, CNAs usually have around 7 patients max, we have a resource nurse every shift, break nurse, and I actually get both of my breaks (one of those breaks is 30 min) and my lunch. The biggest change isn’t even the money. I actually have time to be a nurs