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

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1. How long have you been a nurse?

2. From which kind of educational program did you graduate? LPN, ADN, Diploma, or BSN How long ago did you graduate?

3. Have you returned to school for an advanced degree?

4. What do you remember most about your nursing program?

5. What was the best part of nursing school?

6. What was the hardest part of nursing education?

7. Did you have children to care for while you were in nursing school? Were you married?

8. Have you ever left nursing to do something else?

9. What do you remember about you "state board exams" or N-CLEX?

10. What nursing jobs have you had since you have left school?

11. In what specialty or nursing area do you work? Or did you work last (if no longer in nursing)?

12. Approximately what is the salary for most nurses in your specialty area?

13. What are the most satisfying things about your job?

14. What shift have you worked the most? What are the advantaged and disadvantages for you in each shift?

15. What are the things that make your job most difficult?

16. Do most people in your workplace like their jobs/managers/peers? Why?

17. If you could do it over, would you go into nursing again?

18. Would you encourage your son/daughter to go into nursing?

19. Would you have done anything differently in your education or nursing job choices?

20. In a perfect world, what would you change about the profession of nursing?

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Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.

Thread moved to Nursing Student Assistance forum. I think you will get more responses here.

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Specializes in ER.

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.

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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!

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

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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

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Thank**

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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

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