Interview a Nurse

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I need to interview a Registered Nurse who has been one for about 3 to 5 years. I have like 15 questions to ask? If you could messaged me back on here. Not really sure how to know if someone has messaged me.. I would greatly appreciate. I am going to school to be a Nurse and this is an assignment they want us to do..

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

They want you to interview a nurse- not post your questions on an anonymous message board and write down the answers.

Find a real, live nurse and face-to-face interview him/her. Call your local hospital/ doctor's office/ clinic and ask for assistance.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

Welcome to AN!

I think when nursing students are asked to interview nurses it is meant to be face to face. Face to face interviewing is a vital skill in the nursing process of caring for a patient. Tons of information can be gleaned from body language in a face to face interaction that as a nurse you need to read to best care for your patient. In this electronic age we exist in, face to face interactions are rarer and rarer but remain vital to the assessment process.

I believe that the assignment to interview a nurse means to interview someone face to face. The interview process is a vital tool in the nursing process and it requires it to be face to face. This is an anonymous site, and while reliable, you still have no way of knowing of it really is a nurse you are "interviewing". The whole process of stepping out of your comfort zone to ask a complete stranger to talk about a personal issue and to trust you enough to give you that information....is the assignment. It is my personal belief that online interviews do not fulfill this process.

I wish you the best on your nursing journey.

Go to CVS and talk to the nurse practitioner running the clinic, make an appointment with your PCP to speak with his nurse, talk to your local board of health in your town and their nurse practitioner, check the health stop on campus, go to a local urgent care, call the local school and ask for an appointment with the school nurse. I really think perfecting interview skills is vital to the nursing assessment process.

Good luck!

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We get these requests a lot, so if there are any other students out there who might get this kind of assignment, listen up:

Part of your faculty's reason for giving you this assignment is to get you to go out there and speak to an RN face to face. A big email blast is not a substitute for shoe leather. AN is not Google.

See, in nursing, you have to learn to speak to a lot of people you would not otherwise encounter; you might find yourself out of your comfort zone. This is part of nursing, a huge part. An anonymous respondent online, well, you don't really know who we are, do you? We could be the truck driving guy living next door for all you know.

So if all you do about learning new things is "Go to the keyboard and hit send," then you are limiting your chances of actual learning a valuable skill you will need all your working life. Also, your faculty will not be impressed by your citation of an anonymous person who may or may not be a nurse on the internet.

That said: Where will you find a nurse? Think outside the (computer) box.

Local hospital: go to the staff development/inservice education office and ask one of them. They value education and will be happy to chat or to hook you up with someone who is.

Go to the public health department downtown. Ditto.

Go to the local school and ask to speak to a school nurse. Ditto.

Go to a local clinic / physician/NP office. Ditto.

Go to the local jail and ask to speak to the nurse there. Ditto.

Notice all of these say, "Go to..." and not "Email..." Remember that part about meeting new people face to face and comfort zone.

Go!

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Wow ....allnurses has sure been flooded with these.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

We get these....kind of like the Does the pearson view trick work?

Some nurses will answer them...and I'm ok with that. I don't. I think they are losing an opportunity to develop an important skill...the patient interview. I know some instructors are ok with online interviews....but those instructors are doing a disservice to the student.

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Like clockwork or the tides, regular appearance. It's the beginning of the semester. I wish we could make this a stickie.

Oooh, ooh! Brilliant idea: If AN can automatically tag a post for review if it has profanity in it, why not automatically tag the ones that have "interview" in them and send them the autoresponse Esme and / or I always post?

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