Interview a Nurse (school project)

[sjarmistead]

Hello everyone,

I have a current project for a health education course where I need to interview a nurse working in a hospital or public health. It would just be few questions about preventive health care and should only take a few minutes. If anyone could be my interviewee please respond.

Thanks :)

[NanikRN]

People on AN are very reluctant to help students with these type of assignments. It's really a shame.

No, really a shame would be the student totally missing the value of this assignment

There's a very good rationale for these assignments. Why do you think it's a good idea for the student to bypass the learning intention of this assignment? And why would you think a beginning nursing student would be able to tell if the poster is a nurse or not?

If you look over this site, you will find nurses helping students. What you won't find is nurses helping students bypass the learning intent of the assignment. And you won't find nurses helping students with homework question without active student involvment

[BeachsideRN, ASN]

I'm kind of bummed my program hasn't made us do a similar assignment. After reading this site for so long I thought it was a standard assignment. I love to hear people's story of why/how they got into nursing and what they do. It truly is a valuable assignment. Which although is best done face to face, it can also be beneficial via phone or email with someone you know in real life.

[amoLucia]

And the nature of these interviews is such that it would be very obvious if the person answering the questions wasn't a nurse.

Not necessarily.

There's a whole bunch of nurse wannabees, nursing school dropouts, self-appointed nurse experts via WebMD School, nurses-by-osmosis, etc out there who can talk the talk. Even my Mom could sound impressive.

And like PP NanikRN commented, a new nsg student prob doesn't have the vocab yet to tell the diff between a phoney nurse and the real thing.