Interviewing an Emergency Nurse

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Hello everyone,

I'm a new grad currently working towards my emergency nursing certificate. I currently have an assignment to complete which involves interviewing an emergency nurse. Since I am a new grad who is currently unemployed, I do not know any emergency nurses that I can interview. For this reason, I was hoping that there would be a kind emergency nurse out there that would be willing to help me out.

Thanks in advance!

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do you need a face to face/online interview or is an e-mail type sufficient, that will help finding someone to do it.

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Through email is sufficient!

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Specializes in Education.

Have you tried simply calling a local ED?

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Specializes in psych, addictions, hospice, education.

an email interview isn't what your instructor intended...

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Specializes in Urology.

Try going to your local ED and asking the manager. I'm sure they would be happy to help out!

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Specializes in Peds/Neo CCT,Flight, ER, Hem/Onc.

What kind of emergency nursing certificate is this? Are you in the US?

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Thanks everyone, I think I'm going to try my local ED. I was hesitant about this at first cause I didn't want to be a bother by going there just to find someone to interview, but ill give this a try. Its an online course for an emergency nursing certificate program in Ontario.

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Call me crazy but I think interviewing via email would be more than sufficient. Especially since it's an online course. Your instructor would never know and you would get the same information anyway!

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Specializes in psych, addictions, hospice, education.

In a face-to-face interview, you can get information that's not on the question list, that can be very interesting. You can also build a bit of a network for the future.

The teacher would never know??? Wouldn't that be cheating??? Hmmm...

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Specializes in Peds/Neo CCT,Flight, ER, Hem/Onc.
Thanks everyone, I think I'm going to try my local ED. I was hesitant about this at first cause I didn't want to be a bother by going there just to find someone to interview, but ill give this a try. Its an online course for an emergency nursing certificate program in Ontario.

Okay that makes way more sense to me now because in the US we have a CEN course that requires a certain amount of experience as is rather difficult. Something a new grad should not tackle.

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I don't think so. The student would still be completing the assignment and if it wasn't otherwise specified...don't really see a problem.

But OP let us know what you decide to do, hope you get some good information for your assignment :).

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