Been to see loads of student nurses in clinical practice and everyone bar none is having problems with communication and anxiety. I was a student nurse (30 years ago) and I was a advanced practitioner up until a few years ago. Now I work fulltime in education and I am really shocked and surprised by the lack of resilience shown by students. These are adults, some are in their 30s or 40s but utterly fall apart at the first sign of hardship and appear totally unable to communicate with other people. What is going on? Is this just a higher education in UK thing or are we really becoming far too delicate as a species?