need help from a experience nurse

[mrs.smurf]

I need help from a nurse who been in the field for a while. I am doing a essay about my future occupation for my college class and I have to interview a nurse but I don't know any personally. If anybody could answer these question for me and send the answer to my inbox i would greatly appreciate it.

Instructions: Please the following questions in your Interview for your

Occupational Profile and Research Essay.

Interviewer:

Interviewee:

1. How long have you held your job? Have long have you been in the profession?

2. What was your entry level position? What are the opportunities for advancement?

3. What is a typical day like? How do you prepare for it?

4. What is the salary range? What is it based on? Location?

5. What classes should I focus on for this career?

6. What advice would you give to someone who is just starting out in the professio

7. What do you know now that you wished you knew before you started the job?

What challenges and obstacles do you face?

9. What abilities or character traits should a job applicant have?

10. What made you enter the field?

11. What is your favorite part of the job?

12. What is your least favorite part of the job? Ask about educational background?

[christina731]

Stop getting so upset. How do you expect to make it in an environment where you frequently have to go out there and talk to people you don't know, when you can't even do it now. Do the legwork. Posting questions here is the easy and lazy way out. 11 questions especially. That would take an RN a decent amount of time to respond to and then you just get to copy paste without doing any of the legwork. Go out there and did an RN to interview in person. That is the entire point of these assignments. Plus, how can you verify that it was an experienced RN. Do you know if I'm a student or an RN? Or if I answers your questions would you even care to know the truth or would you just take my answers for your essay?

Those questions are the basic reason why you will find no help in your interview. Keep up the attitude and you won't get help for other things either. The nurses here have a wealth of knowledge and in the nursing student assistance forum they share it with people willing to try first and ask for help.

Nursing school will take a lot of hard work to complete. Start practicing now and go out and actually DO the work that was assigned to you instead of relying on someone here to do it for you.

Oh, and while you're at it, use the search bar on this site to search "interview". Then maybe you will understand. GL

Well said, Mrsboots. Well said!

[christina731]

you people are so unhelpful i hope none of you are not in the healthcare field

Why not take a step back from jumping at us and think about what you're asking for. Asking strangers to do your homework is never a good idea. I wonder what your instructors will think if they knew that you were soliciting information for an assignment from an anonymous website. They would probably not think very highly of you.

I sincerely hope that you are not currently in the healthcare field and will never end up in the healthcare field until you change your attitude and do something for yourself rather than asking a bunch of strangers to do your homework. Good luck to you.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

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[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Mrs.S...

Welcome to AN!

I was not home yesterday so I was not here. I know the thread is closed but I want to clarify for other students. We get many of these requests...many of us are clinical instructors past and present. The goal of these assignments is to get nursing students to go outside of their comfort zones. An interview is an important skill for the nurse. Each and every patient we have an initial interview where information is gathered and observed for non verbal communication. We have to be comfortable with asking complete strangers face to face the most intimate details of their private lives. We need to be comfortable with this task in order to establish trust and in order to estabish that trust we must be completely competent and confident in this skill.

Most nursing programs want these interviews in person...face to face...in order to get the student out of his/her comfort zone. It is the instructors expectation that the student will be creative and think outside the box. You are going to have many of these "outside the box" moments in your nursing career and it isn't so much about the assignment but the effort you are willing to out into that assignment that counts.

There are many other sources available to you....go to a CVS minute clinic, call a local school and ask for the nurses office, check out a senior center, an assisted living center, your local board of health, a Red cross blood drive, a flu clinic, or your PCP/NP office.

Allnurses is a different social board. We are focused on helping you be the best nurse you can be....it is about upholding the professional standards and progressing the field to a better tomorrow. I hope you will eventually see that AN only has your best interest at heart and will learn to make the most of the resources available to you here and realize that nursing will give you only what you put into it....I wish you the best on your nursing journey.