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Answer these questions

could you answer these 5 questions for me?

1)What does a nurse do?

2)Are there any specific skills that they need to perform their role?

3)Do you see nursing as a profession or an occupation?

4)Why did you decide to become a nurse?

5)What is the most exciting part of the nurse's practice?

Please add your first name once you are done, thank you so much!

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    could you answer these 5 questions for me?

    1)What does a nurse do?

    2)Are there any specific skills that they need to perform their role?

    3)Do you see nursing as a profession or an occupation?

    4)Why did you decide to become a nurse?

    5)What is the most exciting part of the nurse's practice?

    Please add your first name once you are done, thank you so much!

    No I won't. I will tell you to use the search feature. You will find answers a plenty to all 5 questions.

    Sent from my iPhone using allnurses.com

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    Do you have any idea how long it would take to answer those questions? Describing what a nurse does would take all day. There are so many different jobs in so many different areas with so many different responsibilities it would be impossible to cover.The skills list would be endless as well.You need to narrow down your questions a bit.

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    i didn't mean for them to be QUESTIONS but an interview for you guys to give me your opinion. Thanks again.

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    Welcome to AN! The largest online nursing community.

    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 speaking to.

    There are many places to interview nurses. You can call you PCP office, local Dept of health, local schools, and some outpatient mini clinics like CVS.

    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. The nursing interview is one of the most important skills a nurse must posses for in the admission interview process a nurse obtains valuable information that cannot other wise be obtained just by reading a patients body language during response. You need to become comfortable in talking with complete strangers....that is the purpose of the assignment. It is my personal belief that online interviews do not fulfill this process.

    I wish you the best on your nursing journey.

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    My friend Esme is too polite to say so. We do not do your homework! And just because you spent all your life on the Internet does NOT mean it's the be-all, end-all of answers.

    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. Got that, jazon?

    Go!

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    So im guessing you guys here on AN are robots and practice virtual nursing. I thought that at least this would save me some time, which i preciously need because of all this school work + outside work. Seriously is it really that hard to answer a few simple questions?

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    And no im not like those people who live off their computer, i just thought for once that maybe a site called All Nurses, a site in which nurses/nursing students gather to HELP each other out would be able to answer a simple question or two. Great first impression you guys are giving me, i hope i dont turn out as stuborn as you guys,and i really hope for the sake of your patients, that is if you still have a nursing job, that you at least treat them better than you are with me.

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    All we are saying is you need to practice interviewing a person face to face.

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    So im guessing you guys here on AN are robots and practice virtual nursing. I thought that at least this would save me some time, which i preciously need because of all this school work + outside work. Seriously is it really that hard to answer a few simple questions?
    Yes it is. If your assignment is to interview a nurse, please do so. Yes it's extra work, but the point is to meet a real person, not a "robot" who practices "virtual nursing."
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    That was not a question or two, but five. See if you can interview a nurse at your local hospital.

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    Ha!

    You might not have intended it but your entitled attitude is mind-blowing! And to turn around and start throwing insults when you don't get what you want... speechless.

    Look, you say you were trying to save some time? Guess what? We've all gone through similar school workload. Many of us also did it while having jobs. And we still made the time to go out there and do this kind of assignment. It is also an opportunity to network, which would be extremely valuable by the time you look for a job.

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    And no im not like those people who live off their computer, i just thought for once that maybe a site called All Nurses, a site in which nurses/nursing students gather to HELP each other out would be able to answer a simple question or two. Great first impression you guys are giving me, i hope i dont turn out as stuborn as you guys, .

    We are always happy to help. We help all the time.....but we will not do it for you. This assignment is to interview a NURSE and a NURSING STUDENT. Many nursing school do not consider having answers procured from an anonymous website a credible source or completing the assignment as requested. You have no way of verifying whether or not those answering your questionnaire are really nursing professional at all. You are not the first student to receive this assignment who is busy and overwhelmed in nursing school. I must say that the impression you are projecting right now is not all that appropriate for a new student wanting to be the best nurse they can be.

    No one is trying to be purposefully "stubborn". As professionals who wish to maintain the integrity of the profession we are only helping you become the best nurse you can be. The purpose of this site is not to provide shot cuts or save time for that would not be doing you any justice for eventually it will catch up with you. Our focus is to help you become the best nurse you can be.

    Interviews are a face to face encounter. The interview is an important process in the care of a patient. It is as a part of the assessment process during your admission process and encounters with your patient. There is a ton of non-verbal information that is obtained about a patient when they are being interviewed as to whether they are being abused....for their mouth may say no but their body language says yes.

    Learning how to interview a complete stranger and obtain extremely personal information is an art form....one that cannot possible be perfected utilizing an online questionnaire.

    Our jobs as nurses is NOT to take the path that is quicker....but it is the path that is the best and getting so good at it that it is done accurately and with a level of expertise. Becoming the best nurse you can be is not about saving time and cutting corners. It's about stepping out of your comfort zone and conquering a new skill for it will be a skill you will utilize everyday on every patient.

    I hope that you will turn out to be just as "stubborn" as the rest of us when you finally become a nurse.....for that is supporting the integrity of this profession and ensuring that you are the best nurse you can be......that integrity will go a long way in your chosen field.

    Good Luck

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