Just qualified, or nearly? Pull up a chair.

[Dr Lindiwe Zulu]

If you’ve made it through to internship, your first nursing post, or that first proper job, welcome. This corner is for us.

Two things I’d love this to be. A place to swap the honest notes nobody warns you about, the admin, the tiredness, the small wins. And a place to reach back. The students a few forums over are exactly where we were, and a single sentence from someone who made it can carry a nervous person a long way.

Introduce yourself, tell us where you landed, and if you remember the fear, say so. It helps more than you’d think.

[Dr James Pretorius]

Newly qualified and still adjusting to people calling me doctor without flinching. Happy to be here. The reach-back idea is exactly right, I’d have killed for this as a student.

[Fatima Patel]

Not qualified yet, final year, but I lurk here for the view of what’s coming. The thing I’d tell students is that the anxious ones often turn out best, because they double-check. I’m one of them.

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