Could any RN answer these questions for my school project?

[juliabidles]

Could any registered nurse answer these 5 simple questions for my school project please? Also if you could please state what floor/unit you work/worked on.

1. What made you choose nursing?

2. Is nursing rewarding? What has been your most rewarding experience?

3. What type of issues have you experienced that are a conflict to nursing?

4. What do you see as the future of nursing?

5. What duties are included in your job description?

[AliNajaCat]

Call the local hospital nursing education department, the public health department, the college health clinic, the parish nursing folks, the public school nurse...make a date for coffee and a chat. The idea is to get you out of your comfort zone and talk to a live person, a skill you will desperately need in actual nursing school. You can do it. It's only a phone call.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

are you in high school? Or is this for college?

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[Lev, MSN, RN, NP]

Could any registered nurse answer these 5 simple questions for my school project please? Also if you could please state what floor/unit you work/worked on.

1. What made you choose nursing?

I chose nursing because it was a solid career choice, was interesting and stimulating, required contact with people, and seemed to be in demand (well it was easier to get a job before the recession)

2. Is nursing rewarding? What has been your most rewarding experience?

Nursing is rewarding when people appreciate what you do and when you can make a difference, which doesn't happen all the time. I don't have a specific example.

3. What type of issues have you experienced that are a conflict to nursing?

The issues I have experienced are managers who are out of touch with their staff, staff feeling out of touch with upper management aka the big wigs, supplies not being stocked, and chronic staff turnover with high patient acuity.

4. What do you see as the future of nursing?

In the future of nursing I see more RNs getting graduate degrees and less RNs wanting to stay at the bedside for long. I do not see national set staffing ratios for decades to come.

5. What duties are included in your job description?

Assess patients and implement the plan of care. Triage patients. Maintain a safe patient environment. Document in the medical record. Administer medications. Lift heavy loads. Be on feet for extended periods of time (not joking these are in the job descriptions).

[Buyer beware, BSN]

Call the local hospital nursing education department, the public health department, the college health clinic, the parish nursing folks, the public school nurse...make a date for coffee and a chat. The idea is to get you out of your comfort zone and talk to a live person, a skill you will desperately need in actual nursing school. You can do it. It's only a phone call.

This is great advice for the neophyte passionate student nurse and could be the first rudimentary step toward dealing with your first drug seeking patient.

This way you'll be somewhat desensitized when that special patient says " get me the dilaudid now you so and so or I'll kill you."