Answer these questions

[jazon77]

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!

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

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

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

Once I taught students who spent an inordinate amount of time calculating their GPAs to the fourth decimal point in an attempt to figure out how many questions, exactly, they had to get me to throw out of the exam so they would pass (at 74%). They did not come to review sessions before the exams, goofed off during class, and only came to review sessions after the exams to argue about getting their questions thrown out. One day I said, "You know, if you put half the effort into learning normal electrolytes and common medications that you do into doing long division, you'd be passing this material."

So with this thread. Don't argue we're not doing what you want, jazon-- you're right, we won't. Don't waste any more time trying to find a short-cut-- just go do your assignment, which is to interview real people.

The internet can be a wonderful tool, and because we know this we often give students links to useful things. It can also be seductive to people who want to put in less effort than they should. But it usually ends up taking more time than you needed to do the job in the first place.

It used to make me so angry when my father said, "Lazy people take the most pains," but damitol, eventually I learned he was right. Do it right the first time and be done with it.