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I'm currently trying to finish my BSN and I need to conduct an interview with a nurse that has one of these job titles.

Quality Care Coordinator; Performance Improvement Officer/Coordinator; Director of Quality Assessment or Compliance Officer.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Ivan Cruz

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

Being as this is a public board, there is no guarantee that anyone who responds is actually any one of those things. Interviews are best done in person, so your best bet is to call any health facility in your area and ask there. You can also try home health agencies, nursing homes, hospice care, if you can't get a hospital officer. Even if they just do a phone interview for you, you know they are for real.

We get a fair number of interview requests on All Nurses, and this is our usual response. You may get someone who emails you, but again, how do you know for sure? Good luck!

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

Hello and good to see you posting.

We moved your thread to the Nursing Student Assistance forum for the best response.

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

Your local hospital will have nurses in all of those roles---go ahead and give them a call to arrange a face to face interview! Might even open some doors for you when the job-hunting season is upon you =)

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

Copied with permission from GrnTea:

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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