I need to interview RN for school paper due

[Samiya1028]

1. What do you like most about your job and why?

2. What do you like least about your job and why?

3. How did you decide to get into this field,and what steps did you take to enter the field?

4. What training would you recommend for someone who wanted to enter this field now?

5. What types of stress do you experience on the job?

6 Wwhat types of people survive and do well in this field?

7. How long have you worked as an RN?

8. I your work schedule flexible?

9. What is the salary range for a person in this field?entry-level tope salary?

Please post any comments here thanks everyone

[hodgieRN]

You probably won't get any responses b/c interviews are supposed to be done face-to-face. Sorry

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Welcome to AN! The largest online nursing community.

I believe that the assignment to interview a nurse means to interview someone face to face. The interview process is a vital tool in the nursing process and it requires it to be face to face. This is an anonymous site, and while reliable, you still have no way of knowing of it really is a nurse you are speaking to.

There are many places to interview nurses. You can call you PCP office, local Dept of health, local schools, and some outpatient mini clinics like CVS.

The whole process of stepping out of your comfort zone to ask a complete stranger to talk about a personal issue and to trust you enough to give you that information....is the assignment. It is my personal belief that online interviews do not fulfill this process.

I wish you the best on your nursing journey!

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

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.

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!