Need to interview a nurse or NP

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Hello all. I need to do a quick interview of an RN or NP. It could be done by email and the questions are short generic ones. My paper is due in a week and I can't find anyone to interview. If you could please help that would be appreciated. My email is [email protected] thank you!

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

How far along in school are you?

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graduate in august

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

Have you tried your local school system and make an appointment? Your local board of health? Your PCP office? your children's PCP office? Have you tried the local CVS minute clinics, there are NP's there? Face To face Interview skills are an important piece of the nursing process. You need to get comfortable to approaching complete strangers and developing an instant rapport/trust to obtain personal information from a complete stranger. There are many schools who do not allow nor accept online interactions/interviews a a part of the proper resource of this assignment as we could be anyone from anywhere and not a reliable resource. Beside defeating the purpose of taking you out of your comfort zone and making you find a stranger to have a face to face interview.

Good Luck with the rest of school. try these suggestions.

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Specializes in Post-Surgical, Urology, Short Procedures.
Hello all. I need to do a quick interview of an RN or NP. It could be done by email and the questions are short generic ones. My paper is due in a week and I can't find anyone to interview. If you could please help that would be appreciated. My email is [email protected] thank you!

Sent you an email:-)

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emailed back :D

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Specializes in Post-Surgical, Urology, Short Procedures.
emailed back :D

Answered your questions. Please let me know if you need anything else.

Kate

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i realize someone has already saved your bacon, but perhaps some other student will come across this post and read this far.

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.

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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