That freezing up thing happens to almost everyone the first time, mostly because nobody actually rehearses saying answers out loud before the real thing, they just read through questions in their head and assume that counts. The clinical scenarios are the worst part too, panels love throwing some random patient situation at you and watching if you can think it through calmly instead of just reciting textbook stuff. There’s a rundown of the questions new grad RN panels tend to ask here: https://roundlyhq.com/blog/new-grad-rn-interview-questions/ . Goes through the STAR and SBAR stuff for behavioral versus clinical answers and even covers things like handling multiple patients who all need you at once.
