I Need A Nurse To Interview!!

Adele_Michal7, ASN, RN · Jun 26, 2015

Would also like to point out to the OP that doing this in person could be a wonderful experience that could even lead to job down the road

BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN · Jun 27, 2015

Oy, a new account asking the age old question. Seriously, does NOONE know how to use the search bar? Then they'd save us the trouble of dusting off "the speech". Actually, it doesn't even have time to get dusty!!!

Hello, I'm in Intro to nursing and my assignment is to interview a registered nurse. if anybody would be kind enough to help me out... I'd really appreciate it. it can be a quick phone call or anything you'd be comfortable with. they are simple questions and very short. pleeeeeeease!!

BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN · Jun 27, 2015

With a confirmed RN, no? We could be 12 year old boys or ex-cons on house arrest getting our jollies by posting on this forum. You just don't know!!

That's all great information. But my teacher did tell us we could do an interview through the phone or a video chat. So thanks anyways...

BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN · Jun 27, 2015

Another reason that joining AN JUST to get someone to help with homework is a bad idea

Oh no! I want to help but I'm not willing to publish my email or phone for the world to see. Would the mods connect us somehow?

RNDisneyGirl · Jun 27, 2015

Wow all I can think of is "nurses eat their young" after reading this forum! Shame on all of you. I will help you, PM me I am a RN

OrganizedChaos, LVN · Jun 27, 2015

Wow all I can think of is "nurses eat their young" after reading this forum! Shame on all of you. I will help you, PM me I am a RN

Really? NETY? She *should* go in person, for many reasons listed. If a student won't do the assignment, why should we? It's not hard to talk to a nurse in person. Once more, she can't PM because she is new.

Whispera, MSN, RN · Jun 27, 2015

In defense of students who ask to interview us...

I've done phone interviews with people who ask that dreaded question here, several of them. Without exception all the interviewers have been lovely, dedicated students trying to get an assignment done.

As an instructor, I wish I could contact every instructor who gives this blasted assignment without specific instructions that there must be interaction that's more than email, between the student and the person interviewed. A student to dream up the answers to the questions that are usually asked and write the paper without interviewing anyone. I assign my students to interview a nurse, and make it clear it can't be someone they don't either hear, or see and hear. I want more than the answers to some really boring questions. An actual interview goes way beyond the questions on the list. It's more interesting (even to the interviewee) and not so much work for the one interviewed.

Please, Bea, find a nurse who's more than an online presence, to interview...

anh06005, MSN, APRN, NP · Jun 27, 2015

I don't know how it could be that difficult. Go to your old high school or elementary school. Your college clinic. YOUR doctor's clinic. Surely somebody you know (friends or family) know a 2nd cousin's nephew who is a nurse. Also maybe a hospitals nurse educator or another school's nursing faculty? My best friends cousin is a nurse. I could go talk to her. Or I know my old schools elementary principal. I might could set myself up there.

Almost everybody has connections

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Jun 27, 2015

Oh no! I want to help but I'm not willing to publish my email or phone for the world to see. Would the mods connect us somehow?

You can send Bea a PM with your contact information and hope she receives it in time. However, I am suspecting she's already been turned off by the responses she's received and may not return.

bugya90, ASN, BSN, LVN, RN · Jun 27, 2015

I work in a clinic and have done interviews for our patients for their perspective nursing programs. Even had a pre med student interview me and one of my docs, that was interesting. I have no problem doing an in person interview on my lunch break or after work (there's normally food involved which is a plus). OP there are literally hundreds of places that nurses work at the you could call. Maybe even find a school nurse who's off for the summer, go to a local LTC and ask if anyone would be willing to interview, or try the local clinics. There's no reason to go on an anonymous message board and ask people that you can't verify are even licensed nurses and risk failing this part of your class. I promise most nurses don't bite and are usually approachable outside of work or during the non-busy parts of their shifts. Call a couple places and offer food and you'll get some takers.

Jensmom7, BSN, RN · Jun 27, 2015

Wow all I can think of is "nurses eat their young" after reading this forum! Shame on all of you. I will help you, PM me I am a RN

Ok, stop. Just stop. This is NOT NETY. This is an unprepared student who either doesn't have the time or doesn't want to exert herself enough to meet a real nurse face to face.

So she goes on a public forum, people point out the wrongness of her plan. No legitimate nurse would be willing to provide the information that would prove their credentials. My license might be almost 40 years old, but I'm kind of attached to it, thank you.

When it became clear that she wasn't going to get the responses she wanted, she made a quick exit. Hopefully, she took some of the good advise given here. Yes, some of you guys are very young. Wouldn't hurt you to pay attention to people who have more experience (job AND life).

Jensmom7, BSN, RN · Jun 27, 2015

Wow all I can think of is "nurses eat their young" after reading this forum! Shame on all of you. I will help you, PM me I am a RN

Yes, some of you guys are very young. Wouldn't hurt you to pay attention to people who have more experience (job AND life). For example, one poster mentioned that OP is too new to PM. Sometimes paying attention keeps one from making errors.