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Hello All! I am currently obtaining my BSN and one of my assignments is to interview a currently practicing BSN RN. I was hoping to get some help from someone on this site. I have used this site in the past for this same thing and it worked very well for my assignment then, so I figured I would give it another try!

Here are the questions that I need answered:

›Is lifelong learning important to you?

›Do you feel continuing education is sufficient for life long learning?

›How do you feel the push towards increasing the number of Bachelor educated nurses will assist in the amount of nurses who have a desire to pursue continuing education?

›Do you feel that earning your BSN degree helped you to be a better nurse or do you feel like more specialty continuing education hours would have served you better and why?

›How do you specifically plan to practice lifelong learning in your practice, if at all?

Any nurses out there who are BSN's please take a minute to read over these questions and hopefully answers!

Thanks in advance and hope to hear from someone soon!

Cindy

Thank you! I appreciate that ;)

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

Did you do ANY research on AN regarding this topic before creating an account and blindly asking any ol' yutz who may or may not be a nurse? I'm sure the cut and paste standard answer is below, as this request comes up several times a week. Does "interview" to you mean a face to face interactive chat? The top hit when you google "interview definition" is this:

in·ter·view

ˈin(t)ərˌvyo͞o/

noun

noun: interview; plural noun: interviews

  • 1.
    a meeting of people face to face, especially for consultation.
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    Does your instructor know this is the type of "interview" that you plan to hand in for a grade?

    Let the daggers come out, I'm wearing my flame-retardant scrubs. I find it astounding that a BSN-educated almost RN (or any other nursing student) feels it's acceptable to "interview" an anonymous person on a vast message board. You have NO real idea that the person on the other end is, indeed, a real licensed nurse!


    Hello All! I am currently obtaining my BSN and one of my assignments is to interview a currently practicing BSN RN. I was hoping to get some help from someone on this site. I have used this site in the past for this same thing and it worked very well for my assignment then, so I figured I would give it another try!
    Here are the questions that I need answered:




    ›Is lifelong learning important to you?

    ›Do you feel continuing education is sufficient for life long learning?

    ›How do you feel the push towards increasing the number of Bachelor educated nurses will assist in the amount of nurses who have a desire to pursue continuing education?

    ›Do you feel that earning your BSN degree helped you to be a better nurse or do you feel like more specialty continuing education hours would have served you better and why?

    ›How do you specifically plan to practice lifelong learning in your practice, if at all?

    Any nurses out there who are BSN's please take a minute to read over these questions and hopefully answers!

    Thanks in advance and hope to hear from someone soon!

    Cindy

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

Four posts in, you're here asking people for help with a class that doesn't require much effort, and you're going to tell seasoned and respected posters to "lighten up a little"? Smoooooth....

Thank you for taking the time to do this. I think my post may have been taken a little to seriously as my intention was just merely to get some simple answers for an online course that really doesn't need a lot of effort. I understand everyone's thoughts and I get that an actual in person interview is more accurate and what not, but I really just needed some simple answers to put into a power point. Again thanks for your time and everyone else should just lighten up a little.

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Whoa~don't get your panties in a knot. If it bothers you so much just ignore me for goodness sake. It's an online forum, you don't have to interact if you don't want to, just move on. And yes, you need to lighten up a little.

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OP, I filled out our questions. But am I an RN-BSN, a transporter, or a random guy from who reads a lot and thinks nurses are cool? I'll let you decide....

Here are the questions that I need answered:

›Is lifelong learning important to you?
Sure lifelong learning is important. So is respecting other members/nurses who have much more experience than you and being willing to step out of your comfort zone and accept challenges
(like interviewing real live nurses rather than strangers on the internet)

›Do you feel continuing education is sufficient for life long learning?
Depends on the person, I guess. There's a lot more to be learned in life than just nursing (for example: baking, languages, camming
:eek:
, photography, science)

›How do you feel the push towards increasing the number of Bachelor educated nurses will assist in the amount of nurses who have a desire to pursue continuing education?
I don't think it will make much difference.

›Do you feel that earning your BSN degree helped you to be a better nurse or do you feel like more specialty continuing education hours would have served you better and why?
I think getting my BSN will make me more marketable to hospitals in my area, but no, it won't make me a better nurse.

›How do you specifically plan to practice lifelong learning in your practice, if at all?
IMO, Nursing = lifelong learning, if you're willing.

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You can private message me if you would like honest answers from a real live practicing RN who is still living the struggles of school. It is easy to forget how difficult it was to balance nursing school assignments, work, and the rest of your life. Sometimes we must get resourceful. I am willing to help.

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
You can private message me if you would like honest answers from a real live practicing RN who is still living the struggles of school. It is easy to forget how difficult it was to balance nursing school assignments, work, and the rest of your life. Sometimes we must get resourceful. I am willing to help.

The issue is that these are new members with insufficient post counts that do not have access to the private messaging system. Members join just to post these queries/ask for homework help hence a lot of questioning from others.

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Specializes in Public Health, TB.

After lightening up a little, I'll give this a whirl:

›Is lifelong learning important to you?

What an odd question. Will any one really answer no?

›Do you feel continuing education is sufficient for life long learning
?

Again, a rather odd question. By continuing education, do you mean formal CE courses? I learn each and every day, from media, people I interact with, observing nature.

›How do you feel the push towards increasing the number of Bachelor educated nurses will assist in the amount of nurses who have a desire to pursue continuing education?

I don't even know what this means. If your job or license requires continuing ed, then you do it. If you don't want to, then you switch jobs.

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Do you feel that earning your BSN degree helped you to be a better nurse or do you feel like more specialty continuing education hours would have served you better and why?

I think my education helped me be a more rounded person, and perhaps a better nurse.

›How do you specifically plan to practice lifelong learning in your practice, if at all?

How do I practice in my practice? By practicing.

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Specializes in Public Health, TB.

I've given some thought as to why the original questions were irritating to me. it feels like the OP has a pre-set point of view and his /her questions are meant to convince the interviewee.

i guessing the OP feels life long learning is important and that specialty-based continuing Ed is of higher value than a BSN. Also, the employer should provide the opportunity for CEs free of charge and pay the employee to attend.

Am I close?

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Specializes in CVICU.

Naplois1,

Like the Admin of this site I support you getting different perspectives from a nursing forum….you know, where nurses come to post.

Some people just like to gang up and force their views no matter how unwelcome they are. We do not all share the same views.

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Specializes in Prior military RN/current ICU RN..

If you present this any data you receive on this site as "evidence" you are not being honest as you have NO IDEA where it is coming from. Anyone on here who thinks they are doing a service by answering you is not. This is where "help" becomes misconstrued. You are not "helping" someone by allowing them to circumvent the proper way to complete the assignement. "Help" is showing s student that by doing the assingment the correct way they are LEARNING how to gather data. It blows my mind how many BSN nurses answer these questions. Any research class..ANY...would show you this is not how you gather "data". And you are for sure not helping a student.

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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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