Nursing Profession

RedRobin8 · Sep 12, 2011

Personal characteristics needed: compassion for the scared patients and families; patience for the talkers and frantic ones; tough shell and ability to hold one's tongue for the manipulators and rude patients or staff; persistence, listening ear and ability to give a decent, hot bath for the ones who express fear as anger; and insight to determine where the patient is psychologically. Very few patients bounce through the door with a genuine smile, happy to be there. You need to be flexible enough to apply pertinent characteristics to the current needs of the patient...this tends to make application of nursing skills a lot more effective.

Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN · Sep 12, 2011

Face to face interviewing is a skill. A skill that is extremely important to nursing as there is a ton of information that can be gathered during this process between verbal and non verbal cues. I think practing this skill is especially important in this day and age because of all of these electronic devices, although wonderful, keep people apart from interpersonal relations to learn certain social skills.

Go to your local schools, call you doctors office and make an appointment, go to the CVS or to any "Minute Clinic" and there is usually a Nurse Practioner there who can spare you a few minutes or check with your city or town for their board of health/health department and speak with the nurses there......to be a nurse you need to learn how to interact with complete strangers and obtain very personal information in a short peroid of time.....a tough skill to learn and one that requires face to face practice.......I wish good luck.