Published Apr 21, 2014
studentneedhelp
1 Post
Hello, for one of my courses, I'm supposed to conduct an interview. I am planning to do a service project. I am supposed to interview a nurse and I was wondering if anyone could answer these questions for me.
Name?
Job title?
Workplace?
How did you decide on your career?
What is your favorite part of being a nurse?
I am planning on giving back to the community by making cards for sick kids at the hospital; do you have any suggestions or tips for me?
Do you have any other ideas?
What challenges do you think I might face?
Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN
20,908 Posts
Thread moved for best response.....is this for college or high school?
nurseprnRN, BSN, RN
1 Article; 5,116 Posts
"Interview" means "go talk to." We will not write your assignment for you to cut and paste.
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!