I need help!

[AlexaG]

Okay so I was just given a last minute assignment from my instructor today! I need to ask interview questions to a nurse that went through the transition form an LPN to RN. The problem is that none of the nurses I know have done this! If there is anyone out there that can help me, could you please answer that following questions and indicate when you became an RN and where you currently practice. Please I am begging for help here it has to be turned in this Monday! Thank you!

1. Did your peers treat you differently after you became and an RN/during your transition?

2. What advice would you give a new RN?

3. What was the hardest thing for you during your transition from LPN-RN?

4. Do you feel that being an LPN gave you and advantage on mastering new content at the RN level?

5. What do think the difference between an LPN and RN is?

6. What do you think is the hardest skill that you had to learn/acquire during your transition from LPN to RN?

7. How did you handle stress during your this transition?

8. What tips can you give transitional nurses to be successful during their transition?

9. Why did you choose the Nursing profession?

10. What differences do you see in Nursing profession from when you graduated to today? Are the changes good/bad? What would you change?

[kimmie4476, ASN, RN]

I can answer some of these questions. A little background....I got my LPN in 07 and my RN in 09. I have worked the same hospital as both an LPN and through school for my RN.

1) In my hospital, when I was an LPN, it was 1RN and 1LPN for up to 12 acute care patients. I did all my own assessments and meds, the RN did all my pushes. All my partner RN said to me after I got my RN was "you get all the blood transfusions for the next couple of months lol, you owe me :)

2) My advice to a new RN, "you are not too good to empty the bedpan. Never say "that's not my job" because teamwork is imperative to being able to take great care of your patients and I prefer to lead by example. Look up all your meds.

3) The hardest part for me was even though I had been managing my own patient for 2 years, all of a sudden "I" was the RN and I was scared to death. It was the same job, the same people, but all of a sudden I was a scared rabbit

4) I absolutely feel that I had a "leg up" by having my LPN while going through school for my RN. I was already the IV and Foley queen, most nursing tasks I was already really good at, so I could focus on the learning and really enjoy lectures and clinicals instead of fighting other students for skills opportunities

5) Responsibility

6) The same as above

7) Just kept swimming :)

Sorry, can't answer the rest, have to get back to work :)

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

I am sure that if you went to the hospital where your school gives clinicals you could have asked and identified someone who did this. Alas, it's too late for you today.