I need answers to 6 interview Qs from experienced RNs for an assignment

[Brookelynne]

I have a writing assignment due tonight at midnight where I have to interview an experienced RN and none of my nursing instructors/nurse friends are getting back to me because it's summer and they're all on vacation... So if anyone can answers these interview questions I would greatly appreciate it!!

1.) What does a [insert your specialty] do on a regular basis?

2.) What are some of the challenges of this job?

3.) What would you do differently in acquiring this job?

4.) What is the best part of the job?

5.) Why did you choose this career?

6.) What is the best advice you can give to someone in college and starting on this career path?

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

"PRATTLE" interesting word. Prattle, talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way. I don't think that drawing attention to a valuable nursing skill is "prattling".

In every aspect of nursing we must do tasks that place us face to face with the patient. Paying attention to a patients non verbal language can be profoundly enlightening. Nurses cannot under estimate the information that can be obtained especially the initial interview whether on the street (when I was a flight nurse/EMT-P), triage, or admission. I believe that the interview (which is face to face) is a skill as important as starting an IV.

The fact that the previous poster doesn't seem to see the value of face-to-face interviews does not make it less important. You said it very well, Esme.

[TriciaJ, RN]

My thoughts exactly. As if this assignment will profoundly change her practice, or better yet, her being face to face with whom she interviews will drastically change the outcome. This is classic nursing school busy work, and her classmate admitted to even making up the answers proving how inconsequential these assignments tend to be in the long run.

But continue prattling on about how she, and myself for that matter, really needs to understand the importance of doing this assignment FACE TO FACE.

It's always expedient to cut corners on the "busy work". But a bad habit to get into, especially when you're new to a field. The previous poster's classmate had a great thing going, making up stuff and being the darling of her instructors. In the real world, that will come back to bite her and it won't be pretty.

So to reiterate the point so many have tried to make: the OP needs to be more on top of her assignments and needs to interview people she knows are actual nurses. The previous posters are trying to steer her in the right direction. She may get by fudging on this assignment, but fudging is a slippery slope.