Need to Interview an RN for a paper that I have to write!!

1. 8.5 years

2. ADN ( I had a previous BS in Biology)

3. Yes, I am currently in an RN-MSN program for FNP

4. That it went by in a flash. I was working full time during school, so two years with no day off.

5. That it went by in a flash! lol

6. Time management. It was difficult to study and coordinate with other students on group projects. Many of them didn't work and it was hard to explain that I didn't have the time that they did.

7. no and no

8. No

9. I remember being stressed. Being sure I failed. And having to wait two weeks to find out. No tricks available back then.

10. I've worked in the ER since leaving school. At a level 1 trauma center, then level 3, now a tertiary facility.

11. ER

12. I don't know. I started at 18.54 in 2003 and now make a little over double that plus differentials.

13. Some days it sucks and nothing is satisfying about it. But on the good days, you know you made a difference for at least one person and had a positive effect. I hated pedi codes which is why I moved to the facility I am currently at - no ambulances=fewer codes.

14. I've worked mostly nights but did 2-2 and 10-10 for a year or two in between. I like nights, but it's getting more difficult as I get older. Mid shifts are nice because you are super busy, it goes fast, and you get some differential

15. Honestly, the most frustrating aspect is management and bureaucracy. Patients that are obviously scamming the system come a close second.

16. There is a good comraderie among the staff and we like our manager. The problems start when you get past the director level. :)

17. Yes - there are so many things you can do with a nursing degree

18. Yes, if I had one and they were interested.

19. No, I am happy with my choices.

20. I would like to see nurses start working together to improve our image and to advance the idea that we are professionals worthy of respect from administrators and government organizations (JCAHO). I would also like to obliterate Press-Gainey.

here's the same answer i just gave somebody else with the same homework:

1) this is an online forum. you don't know who's answering you or whether it's real or not.

2) your faculty would probably not like it if the way you do you homework is to go immediately to the net and cast your question out there, and wait for an answer. that is not work, and it is not research.

3) go interview a real, live rn, in a clinic, hospital, public health department, or in any of a gazillion places where nurses are found. this, though not explicitly stated, is part of your faculty's intention in making this assignment. don't disappoint them (word to the wise). go, get out there, go!

Well it was a nice look inside the world of a nurse even if it was a homework assignment :)

To sanuk thanks you so much you really saved me!!! I highly appreciate you taking time out of your day to help me!! Thanks again

Thank**

Thank you as well tnbutterfly I'm new to all nurses so I might be replying wrong. Trying to figure out how to use this