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This phenomenological study examined nursing students’ experiences of an educational emergency nursing-care simulation program on hypoglycemic patients. Participants comprised nine nursing students without prior simulation experience, selected from the present batch at the department of S university. One trained research assistant divided the students into three teams with three members each, and delivered two-hour theoretical lectures about diabetes and related nursing interventions. Subsequently, the assistant conducted two rounds of simulation tasks and debriefing. To understand the participants’ experiences of the program, focus group interviews were conducted. Data were analyzed by applying the Colaizzi phenomenological method. The simulation participation experience tended to be clustered into four categories and eleven sub- themes. The four areas were “first encounter with actual clinical cases,” “integrated application of individual nursing knowledge,” “discovering one’s identity as a future professional nurse,” and “learning through repetition and mistakes.” The participants showed a very positive attitude to the overall effectiveness of the practical session, although they were virtual situations. This suggests that simulation-based learning is an effective tool that should be employed in nursing education.