BSN or MSN Nurse Leaders...I Need Help Please!!!!!!!

[UltrasoundRN78]

Good afternoon everyone. I am currently enrolled in a Collaborative Healthcare class, and I need to interview a nurse leader. I need demographic information and 4 questions answered. I also need to include your phone number in case the professor needs a follow up or verification. If anyone is willing to allow me to interview them, please private message me. I am not asking for anyone to do my assignment, I just need someone willing to allow me to interview them and then I need to write up the assignment and summarize 2 scholarly articles relevant to my subjects title/position.

I have had THREE nurses agree to help me and all three have been M.I.A.; my assignment is due Sunday :-O and I have been trying to find someone to interview for 3 weeks now.

In addition to demographic information (initials, credentials, job title, etc.); these are the 4 questions:

1.Scope of responsibility: Major responsibilities, direct reports, and operational budget

2.Organizational mission, vision, values, and beliefs

3.Strategic planning related to ONE core competency (name the core competency)

a) Provide patient-centered care

b) Work in interdisciplinary/interprofessional teams

c) Employ evidence-based practice

d) Apply quality improvement

e) Utilize informatics

4.Role of BSN-prepared nurse to support the strategic plan

Thank you for your time

:)

[UltrasoundRN78]

I should also include that I have contacted organizations in my area and have yet to find anyone willing to answer 4 questions

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

If you haven't gotten into your car and presented yourself to a hospital or other facility with a staff development office you've missed a great chance. Don't know what "organizations" you might have tried, but here are some more ideas we spread around when we get these requests. There are nurse leaders in many places.

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 a nurse face to face. You also learn something about other places nurses work and what that's like. 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 person who may or may not be a 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, new perspectives, and comfort zone.

Go!

[UltrasoundRN78]

I appreciate your suggestions, I did however find your tone to be a tad assuming and condescending. I am not a lazy nursing student and I am not just hiding behind my computer emailing facilities. I did not wait until the last minute, I have been looking for someone to interview for 3 weeks. I did walk into a local doctors office and ask to speak to a nurse. She originally agreed to answer my questions, but then changed her mind and said she did not understand the question. I did go to a long term care facility where I was made to feel like I was bothering them and I could not even speak to a nurse manager. After the attitude I was given for even asking to speak to a nurse manager I am hesitant to just show up at any others. I have made several phone calls to home health agencies; again, no one willing to answer questions. Everyone is too busy, confused by the questions, unreachable, annoyed I would even ask, or can't be bothered. I have yet to find someone who is happy to chat with a nursing student looking for an interview.

I will try your other suggestions and try my public health office or my school district.

Thank you for your time.

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

Ask to make an appointment at their convenience. That may improve their availability.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

I barely give my phone number to people I know, let alone strangers on the internet. OP, this is a rather creepy request. This message board is meant to be anonymous, I highly doubt you are going to find anyone to give you their real name and phone number on here. That's also a rather unreasonable request on the behalf of the professor, IMO.