title: Student life - Your first clinical placement: prepare well and ask for help.
abstract: Your first clinical placement as a nursing student will be an exciting experience, but it may also be somewhat overwhelming.
authors.affiliation: University of Hertfordshire.
authors.forename: Beverley
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ramdeen
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006801:Humans; D011231:Preceptorship; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D006113:United Kingdom