Please, help me with my assignment!

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Hello, everyone!

I am a nursing student in BSN program, and ....

One of my nursing class assignments is to conduct an online interview with a professional nurse who has had a legal or ethical dilemma or a risk management issue concerning the nursing profession.

It would be great if you could type your answers according to each question.

  1. Did you have a legal or ethical dilemma or a risk management issue in your nursing career? If you have, what was the situation?
  2. Why did the situation happen?
  3. What was the outcome of the situation?
  4. What/How could have been done differently?
  5. What would you suggest for the future?



    # Do not mention identity-revealing details about the situation (like names, places.)
    # Please include your feelings and insights.


    Your answers will help me with not only completing my assignment but also improving myself to become a better future nurse as I learn how to solve those issues effectively.

Thank you for reading this!!!

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

It's required to be an ONLINE interview? How are you to verify that the respondents are really nurses?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

What meanmaryjean said. I've never seen a homework assignment for online interviews.

Perhaps OP has observed other requests being denied on the grounds that "interview a nurse" homework questions are traditionally assigned in order to facilitate real, in-person interaction with practicing nurses.

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
What meanmaryjean said. I've never seen a homework assignment for online interviews.

Perhaps OP has observed other requests being denied on the grounds that "interview a nurse" homework questions are traditionally assigned in order to facilitate real, in-person interaction with practicing nurses.

Exactly. The OP had a previous thread seeking a nurse manager to interview.

This is a public, well read internationally website with nurses and non-nurses participating. You have NO WAY of knowing if your respondent is in fact a licensed nurse. Perhaps an online case study might be more appropriate than an interview with an anonymous stranger. Many nursing journals & magazines publish ethical case studies.

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Another bit of evidence on how online BSN and MN courses are so often loaded with shortcuts that dilute the value of the "degree." I know not everyone who is in one is unethical or lazy, of course I do. And for all I know the OP is the second coming of Mother Teresa.

But it ******me off to have my hard-won MN, with its required daily in-person contact with scholars, clinicians, researchers, writers, and patients to produce an original-research thesis, get compared to someone's degree for which their most challenging "capstone" assignment was a Survey Monkey opinion poll or an online questionnaire with no way of validating the responses, done up with statistics and flowery language as if they really mattered.

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Specializes in Leadership, Psych, HomeCare, Amb. Care.

MERRIAM Webster definition of interview:

1:* a formal consultation usually to evaluate qualifications (as of a prospective student or employee)

2

a :* a meeting at which information is obtained (as by a reporter, television commentator, or pollster) from a person

b :* a report or reproduction of information so obtained

How does Type in your answers constitute an interview?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

OP, with an apparent 3 (2 were merged) threads out there asking the same question, I'm thinking you could have found a real-life nurse manager to interview in the time it took to post the threads and watch for answers.

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