''The Clinical Placement Survival Guide: An Essential Guide for Nurses'' is a survival tool for nursing students and those that support them throughout their clinical learning journey: mentors, facilitators, academics, clinical partners and registered nurses. Nursing students clinical placement experience is often fraught with problems. Anecdotal and empirical evidence suggests that nursing students experience feelings of stress, anxiety, alienation, disillusionment and disempowerment as a consequence of problems they encounter while on clinical placement. The guide is a user friendly resource designed to facilitate a smoother transition through this challenging phase of nursing education.