HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF NURSING STUDENTS International nursing literature documents the stress experienced by nursing students. According to Crary, simultaneous didactic and clinical experiences present nursing students with unique challenges compared to other health profession students, who don’t participate in these concurrent experiences at the undergraduate level. Nursing students report stress related to teachers and nursing staff, rejection by peers and patients, feelings of inadequacy, self-doubt, unpreparedness, lack of knowledge and skills, fear of making mistakes, heavy workloads, fear of failure related to graduation, coursework, clinicals, the NCLEX -RN, and time management .