I need to interview 2 nurses for my writing class!

[greenm28]

Gender Age Ethnicity How long have you been a nurse? What educational preparation for nursing do you have? Do you have any specialty certifications?

2.What type of setting (e.g., pediatrics, Intensive Care, community health, medical-surgical) do you practice in? What other type of settings have you practiced in? Which setting has been your favorite and why?

3. Why did you become a nurse?

4. What do you believe are the advantages to choosing a career in nursing?

5. What do you believe are the disadvantages to choosing a career in nursing?

6. How has nursing changed since you became a nurse?

7. What are your professional goals for the next five years?

8. What are the most important issues in the nursing profession right now?

9. Describe an incident in your nursing career that made you question your decision to become a nurse.

10. Describe an incident in your nursing career that gave you the most professional and/or personal gratification.

Thank you so much for helping me!

McKayla

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

That's going to involve a lot of typing on the part of anyone willing to help you out. Have you tried looking for a nurse in person? It is much easier on the person doing you the favor of granting an interview if you ask them questions in person and take notes while they speak. It's also a lot of information for someone to reveal on a public website where right now we're offered a bit of anonymity.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

McKayla,

This is not interviewing a nurse. This is asking us to do your homework for you. You need to find and interview two nurses, not post on an anonymous internet forum where the respondent could be lonely truckers for all you know.

Call your local hospital, doctor's office, public health clinic. Ask around at church, among friends and neighbors. There are 3.3 million nurses in the United States. I'm sure you can find two.

[Mrs.D., BSN]

I interviewed one of my professors for my nursing interview, because I also do not know one in real life.

I just went through all of their credentials and chose one who had some letters after their name that I was interested in. It turned out great, and I got to know (and compliment!) one of the instructors while being a new student in school. I took her to Panera for the interview.

I highly suggest it. I'm looking forward to taking her class in the summer of 2017! (3 years AFTER the interview :) ). Don't take the easy way out. This is a chance for you to really learn something that you may not have expected to.

[Aromatic]

I always made that junk up for writing papers. Writing is the biggest waste of time that colleges make us do.

[mrsboots87]

I always made that junk up for writing papers. Writing is the biggest waste of time that colleges make us do.

Then an you must have missed the entire point of the assignments if you find them a waste of time. Writing papers is about learning the content you are writing about.

Also, not everyone is a good writer. Assigning essays and such help students not look like idiots with bad grammar and punctuation when in the field and writing in legal documents.