The hospital I did clinical at had similar issues and we all felt the same way you do about answering call lights. There’s a huge difference between an RN walking into a room and a student. If shit hits the fan, the RN with years of experience can handle it no problem OR knows who to call for help. The student a few months into a program on their 3rd clinical shift because of a global pandemic is going to be a bit apprehensive. My nursing school pounded into us the importance of looking up our patient before entering the room so answering call lights when you didn’t do that, felt wrong. On top of that, nurses get angry when a student who knows nothing about their patient answers a call light. I had a classmate give a patient who was on swallow precautions water because he was told to answer call lights and the patient asked. Was it posted anywhere? Absolutely not. If I remember correctly I think the patient was a new transfer from ICU which also was not mentioned. And guess what, it was his fault because he gave the water to the patient.

So, you’re not alone. You will get more comfortable with it in time and there’s absolutely NOTHING wrong with you being apprehensive about walking into an unknown situation when you’re learning. If anything, it’s better than having a cocky student run around answering all the call lights and potentially putting patients in dangerous situations.