Any RN's available to answer questions?

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I am a current student doing a career project, could anyone answer questions for me please?

  • Why did you enter this field?

  • What do you see as the biggest rewards

  • What do you see as the biggest problems with your career?

  • Are you able to juggle family and work with your career?

  • What are the financial benefits?

  • What do you think the job market is for your position?

  • What would tell a new person entering this career?

  • What abilities does one have to have to do this career?

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The formatting of your post is all off for me. Maybe 'cuz I'm mobile but I can't even read your questions

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

Sounds like the dreaded, "I need to interview a nurse, but I don't want to actually talk to a nurse and write it out myself. Please do it for me."

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

Sorry- you need to find an actual, real live nurse to interview. An anonymous internet forum is not the place. How do you even know we re nurses?

I'm sure your teacher did not mean for you to complete this assignment by having us do the work.

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Specializes in ICU.

This is the problem I have with schools; you are paying for ridiculous classes like this.

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

You really need to find a live nurse to speak with. As mentioned above, you cannot verify that anyone responding to your poorly formatted post (which the moderators can fix for you if you notify them) is really a nurse. Check at your local schools, urgent care centers, your own health care provider's office, the possibilities are endless.

An interview is a back and forth exchange of information, which is nearly impossible to do via a message board. I interviewed a nurse educator for one of my assignments, and as we talked (face to face), we went off on so many tangents. I learned what I needed to learn to meet the objectives of the assignments, but I also walked away with a lot more knowledge that I never would have gained with a rigid structure of "Here's some questions I'll post on a message board. Answer them for me."

Get out there and talk to a real, verifiable nurse. You will gain the knowledge that isn't possible to gain through this format and make networking connections that may help you in your future career.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

What is with all these sudden interview questions popping up lately. Geeze.

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
What is with all these sudden interview questions popping up lately. Geeze.

Probably a bunch of students in the same/similar classes and someone recommends this site to them and then word spreads. Have you seen all the surveymonkey posts from WGU MSN students for "research"? It's sad how so few people are willing to get out there and truly do the legwork that will help them not only now but in the future.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

I'm not the most outgoing person but asking someone interview questions online I just couldn't do. People can just be so lazy.

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Specializes in L&D, infusion, urology.

You need to learn the interview skills that are necessary as a nurse, and that is a big part of this project. We see these posts all the time, and every one gets the same response. Find someone you can interview in person, get over the nerves associated with doing this, and learn from the process. You can learn as much from the process as you can from these questions.

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Here's my advice, because sometimes students need to know where to go when we tell them AN isn't it for this assignment.

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 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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