Need a psychiatric nurse to interview!

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Hello, I am a pre-nursing student and for an assignment I have to write a paper on the nursing specialty I would like to pursue in the future. For the assignment I have to interview a nurse in the specialty. Let me know if I can interview you (it's five questions) to use in my paper! Thank you!

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Specializes in CAMHS, acute psych,.

You can interview me if you still need a guinea pig ?

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Specializes in Psych, Hospice, Surgical unit, L&D/Postpartum.

Im available to interview as well..

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15 hours ago, TrishJK said:

You can interview me if you still need a guinea pig ?

Great! Message me so I can send the questions! Thank you!

10 hours ago, Erindel RN said:

Im available to interview as well..

Great! Message me so I can send the questions! Thank you!

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Specializes in CAMHS, acute psych,.

I don’t know how to message you. Just put the questions up here and i’ll respond publicly. ?

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1 hour ago, TrishJK said:

I don’t know how to message you. Just put the questions up here and i’ll respond publicly. ?

Oh okay that works too! Here are the questions:

· Are you satisfied with your choice of career? Why?

· What do you like most about your job? What would you change if you could?

· Besides experience and education, what would you look for in an applicant for your position?

· Do you see your job being affected by future downsizing, mergers, or technology? Please explain.

· What is your advice for me as a student in nursing?

Thank you in advance!

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Specializes in CAMHS, acute psych,.

Are you satisfied with your choice of career? Why?

Yes, because it fits with my values.

What do you like most about your job? What would you change if you could?

I like that I am helping others to improve their quality of life by teaching them psychosocial skills and by providing psychotherapy and family therapy that supports my clients to become more empowered, more personally efficacious, and more able to experience satisfaction, self-esteem and perhaps happiness. I am also intellectually stimulated by the complexity of diagnosis and treatment planning and delivery in a field I find endlessly fascinating. I enjoy the respect of my colleagues and being one if a team of people who give a damn and are working to make the world a better place.

I do not like the fact that in public health we are under-resourced and burn-out is an ever-present spectre.

Besides experience and education, what would you look for in an applicant for your position?

Passion, intelligence, emotional intelligence, compassion, willingness, work ethic

Do you see your job being affected by future downsizing, mergers, or technology? Please explain.

Downsizing is a happening thing, because demand is growing but resources are not. Govt money in Australia is being siphoned into the private sector by ’celebrity’-influencers. The private sector is under-trained to manage the additional levels of patient-related risk and so calls more on my Service for support. Vicious downward spiral ensues.

What is your advice for me as a student in nursing?

Don’t let jaded older nurses steal your passion or influence your behaviour. It is their cynical expression of faded dreams and over-worked spiritual bone-weariness. Avoid such nurses and find the ones who are first and second kind to you and kind to their patients.

Get advanced training in your speciality as soon and as much as you can so that you can get out of the wards and into the community. Aim for NP.
Good luck!

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23 hours ago, Trishalishus said:

Are you satisfied with your choice of career? Why?

Yes, because it fits with my values.

What do you like most about your job? What would you change if you could?

I like that I am helping others to improve their quality of life by teaching them psychosocial skills and by providing psychotherapy and family therapy that supports my clients to become more empowered, more personally efficacious, and more able to experience satisfaction, self-esteem and perhaps happiness. I am also intellectually stimulated by the complexity of diagnosis and treatment planning and delivery in a field I find endlessly fascinating. I enjoy the respect of my colleagues and being one if a team of people who give a damn and are working to make the world a better place.

I do not like the fact that in public health we are under-resourced and burn-out is an ever-present spectre.

Besides experience and education, what would you look for in an applicant for your position?

Passion, intelligence, emotional intelligence, compassion, willingness, work ethic

Do you see your job being affected by future downsizing, mergers, or technology? Please explain.

Downsizing is a happening thing, because demand is growing but resources are not. Govt money in Australia is being siphoned into the private sector by ’celebrity’-influencers. The private sector is under-trained to manage the additional levels of patient-related risk and so calls more on my Service for support. Vicious downward spiral ensues.

What is your advice for me as a student in nursing?

Don’t let jaded older nurses steal your passion or influence your behaviour. It is their cynical expression of faded dreams and over-worked spiritual bone-weariness. Avoid such nurses and find the ones who are first and second kind to you and kind to their patients.

Get advanced training in your speciality as soon and as much as you can so that you can get out of the wards and into the community. Aim for NP.
Good luck!

Thank you! Finally, I forgot ask but can you please tell me your name, where you work (or used to work if retired), and a contact email for my professor?

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).

If you still need someone I'm willing

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Specializes in CAMHS, acute psych,.

Taycole research doesn’t work that way. Research subjects are generally anonymous. You can screenshot my response, so your lecturer doesn’t think you made it up. You can show her/him this response, but i’m not prepared to give out my full name and place of work or email address because i don’t know yours, because it leaves me open to being misquoted, or hacked etc. You can say my name is Trish. I work in Australia in public health. Your lecturer can contact me through this forum if necessary.

also, please remove the following sentences from my response because upon reflection I realise it is unkind, and i don’t wish to besmirch the very good male nurses who work as hard as the women: (“Avoid male nurses. Most of them are lazy and will try and con you to do their work as they climb over your back to win unearned promotion.”)

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6 minutes ago, Trishalishus said:

Taycole research doesn’t work that way. Research subjects are generally anonymous. You can screenshot my response, so your lecturer doesn’t think you made it up. You can show her/him this response, but i’m not prepared to give out my full name and place of work or email address because i don’t know yours, because it leaves me open to being misquoted, or hacked etc. You can say my name is Trish. I work in Australia in public health. Your lecturer can contact me through this forum if necessary.

also, please remove the following sentences from my response because upon reflection I realise it is unkind, and i don’t wish to besmirch the very good male nurses who work as hard as the women: (“Avoid male nurses. Most of them are lazy and will try and con you to do their work as they climb over your back to win unearned promotion.”)

Okay, sorry, my mistake. Thank you!

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