I'm a new grad with 6 months experience in the OR and I'm here to say: It gets easier! I know how tough it is to be with a new face every day, especially since the preceptors usually have very different styles and insist on very different ways of doi...
I graduated May 3rd, passed NCLEX July 17th, was offered a job September 15th, and started work November 1st. So it took 6 months from graduation to job start, though I did not really start job searching until early August.