I would like to interview a nurse for my college class please.

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Hello Everyone !

I was assigned a Career Research Project and in it I have to interview a nurse. I would like to be a RN in my career. I would greatly appreciate it if someone can answer these questions.

Please read each question carefully and answer in detail.

How has the nurse's role and responsibilities changed during your practice?

Provide example of ethical dilemma.

How do you maintain practice expertise?

How do you deal with conflict in your unit/floor?

Describe a typical day for a person in this job.

What are the usual hours?

What are the best parts of the day?

What would be the most challenging?

What else do you think I should know that maybe I did not ask?

What advice can you give someone, who wishes to go into this field?

If you prefer not to provide this information online; please email me at [email protected]

Person Interviewed:

Occupation:

Organization:

Address: (It can be work address)

Phone:

Date of Interview:

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

Why not interview a nurse in person rather than post on a highly indexed anonymous nursing forum? It's not recommended to post personal email addresses in public forums. You are unlikely to get a member that may or may not be a licensed nurse to give you personal contact information as you requested plus take the time to do your assignment for you by typing out the detailed responses you request

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Moved to Nursing Student Assistance forum.

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Sorry I'm new to this. So did you move it for me? Thanks so much :)

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.
Why not interview a nurse in person rather than post on a highly indexed anonymous nursing forum? It's not recommended to post personal email addresses in public forums. You are unlikely to get a member that may or may not be a licensed nurse to give you personal contact information as you requested plus take the time to do your assignment for you by typing out the detailed responses you request

THIS^^^ An 'interview' suggests give and take, not asking strangers to do your homework for you. You need to interview a nurse in person- I'm sure that is what your teacher intended.

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No actually she said interview in person or online? thank you very much.

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Specializes in Neuro, Telemetry.

I think you are missing the point. How do you plan to verify that the person who answers the questions is a nurse. I (as a nursing student) could answer all those and claim to be an LPN/RN and you wouldn't know otherwise had I not told you. Also, you are asking very detailed questions. It would take quite some time for a nurse to answer. Hence why people feel it would be doing your homework for you. I highly doubt your instructor would allow and online interview as any good instructor would want you to do a live interview. Part of the purpose of an interview assignment is to get you to go to a facility that employs the person you want to interview and talk to them face to face. Not just post on a random anonymous forum.

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

An interview is done in person, how do you trust anyone on the internet? As you will probably see, you are not the first person to ask 'interview' questions online. As you will also see, you won't get a response, or at least the one you want.

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Specializes in Pedi.

You are not going to find any nurse on here to give you her real name, address and phone number. Your best bet will be to seek out a nurse for a live, in person interview.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
You are not going to find any nurse on here to give you her real name, address and phone number. Your best bet will be to seek out a nurse for a live, in person interview.

THIS.

Contact and/or visit a local hospital, clinic, or long term care setting and see if you can interview a nurse; that would be your best bet. :yes:

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Here's my usual response to these requests, and it includes some ideas of where you need to go to get what you seek.

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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