Technical questions about this specialty

springchick1, ADN, RN · Aug 16, 2015

Your best bet is to be honest and admit that this is a homework assignment. You need to find a nurse and do a face to face interview. You have no idea if the person you are really talking to is a nurse or not.

JustBeachyNurse, LPN · Aug 16, 2015

Hi,
I'd like to gather insight about different specialties and I have a few questions to ask. Feel free to be brief or lengthy if you'd like. Any response is appreciated.
1) Describe your career path to your current position. Include information about education and experiences.

I am a licensed nurse . I have a background in EMS and clinical pharmaceutical research both in a contract research organization for phase 1/2 studies and contract drug manufacturing & research in phase 1-4 studies.

2) Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force in delivery of nursing care at your facility.

Does not apply as I do not work in a facility.

3) What safeguards and decision-making support tools are embedded in patient care technologies and information systems that support safe practice at your facility?

does not apply as I am a field not facility employee. We are not mandated to use EMR. The care plan program does cross check medication orders for high alert interactions. The DME (ventilators, enteral pumps, monitoring) for high tech patients have multiple safety mechanisms such as control lock out, data logging, QA/QC testing.

4) Tell me about patient care technologies that have improved patient care at your facility.

does not apply as I do not work in a facility.

5) What groups of healthcare workers rely on you to collect high-quality information or data and how is it utilized?

field nurses. Used for assessing and determining progress towards nursing goals.

6) Please describe what a typical day on the job is like for you.

depends on the day, patient, case load

7) What is your job title and credentials?

field nurse

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Aug 17, 2015

First post, and it's to put up a list of questions requiring very detailed, thoughtful responses. Questions that should be posed in an interview with a live nurse, someone whose credentials can be verified. Questions that I'm sure the professor who assigned the project will recognize.

Any idea how many nursing instructors are members here??

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Aug 17, 2015

Welcome to All Nurses! In the student sections, we endeavor to help students find their way through the different kind of education that is nursing school That said, we don't do your homework for you, preferring to help with guided discovery. This means you tell us what you know already about your topic ("My patient has congestive heart failure and I'm just not sure why he can't be prescribed propranolol (Inderal). Is it because it slows heart rate and people in CHF try to compensate by tachycardia ...?" ) and then we clarify for you.

On this topic, we get these requests a lot, so if there are any other students out there who might get this kind of assignment, listen up:Part of your faculty's reason for giving you this assignment is to get you to go out there and speak to a nurse face to face. You also learn something about other places nurses work and what that's like. A big email blast is not a substitute for shoe leather. AN is not Google.

This is because, in nursing, you have to learn to speak to a lot of people you would not otherwise encounter; you might find yourself out of your comfort zone. This is one unstated, though very real, rationale for this assignment. This is part of nursing, a huge part. An anonymous respondent online, well, you don't really know who we are, do you? We could be the truck driving guy living next door for all you know.

So if all you do about learning new things is "Go to the keyboard and hit send," then you are limiting your chances of actual learning a valuable skill you will need all your working life. Also, your faculty will not be impressed by your citation of an anonymous person who may or may not be a nurse on the internet.

That said: Where will you find a nurse? Think outside the (computer) box.

Local hospital: go to the staff development/inservice education office and ask one of them. They value education and will be happy to chat or to hook you up with someone who is.

Go to the public health department downtown. Ditto.

Go to the local school and ask to speak to a school nurse. Ditto.

Go to a local clinic / physician/NP office. Ditto.

Go to the local jail and ask to speak to the nurse there. Ditto.

Notice all of these say, "Go to..." and not "Email..." Remember that part about meeting new people face to face, new perspectives, and comfort zone.

Go!

Eeramsey, BSN, RN · Oct 4, 2017

I actually have the same assignment currently. My teacher informed us it is fine to do the interview via email, actually.

elkpark · Oct 4, 2017

I actually have the same assignment currently. My teacher informed us it is fine to do the interview via email, actually.

And by "email," did s/he mean email communication with an RN you know, or posting the questions for random strangers on an internet discussion board?

Eeramsey, BSN, RN · Oct 4, 2017

Great question!

/username, BSN, RN · Oct 8, 2017

Hi,
I'd like to gather insight about different specialties and I have a few questions to ask. Feel free to be brief or lengthy if you'd like. Any response is appreciated.
1) Describe your career path to your current position. Include information about education and experiences.
2) Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force in delivery of nursing care at your facility.
3) What safeguards and decision-making support tools are embedded in patient care technologies and information systems that support safe practice at your facility?
4) Tell me about patient care technologies that have improved patient care at your facility.
5) What groups of healthcare workers rely on you to collect high-quality information or data and how is it utilized?
6) Please describe what a typical day on the job is like for you.
7) What is your job title and credentials?

1. I generally take the highway until it's my exit, and then I take some side streets until I get to the parking structure. Then I walk through the employee entrance. I have the best education. It was a tremendous education. Nobody has more better education than me.

2. Jimmy John's is always on time, and makes great food. I have ample evidence that they are good at their job, so we will continue to order from there.

3. We have robots that complete all nursing tasks, assessments, medication administration/titration, admissions, and discharges. It's really saved a lot of time so we can do more chatting at the nurses station.

4. Again, the robots. Purely fantastic. Did you know that some people use them for sex? eeew.

5. I collect a tremendous amount of data. It's the best data, believe me.

6. F**k B****es, get money.

7. HNIC, RN, BSN, CFN, CEN, CCRN, RNBC, CNRN, CVRN, CORN, ON, THE, COB, ACLS, PCCN, MSN, MTHR, FKR, LAB, BALL, ACCN, CTRN, CWON, CHTP, BAMF.

Eeramsey, BSN, RN · Oct 8, 2017

1. I generally take the highway until it's my exit, and then I take some side streets until I get to the parking structure. Then I walk through the employee entrance. I have the best education. It was a tremendous education. Nobody has more better education than me.
2. Jimmy John's is always on time, and makes great food. I have ample evidence that they are good at their job, so we will continue to order from there.
3. We have robots that complete all nursing tasks, assessments, medication administration/titration, admissions, and discharges. It's really saved a lot of time so we can do more chatting at the nurses station.
4. Again, the robots. Purely fantastic. Did you know that some people use them for sex? eeew.
5. I collect a tremendous amount of data. It's the best data, believe me.
6. F**k B****es, get money.
7. HNIC, RN, BSN, CFN, CEN, CCRN, RNBC, CNRN, CVRN, CORN, ON, THE, COB, ACLS, PCCN, MSN, MTHR, FKR, LAB, BALL, ACCN, CTRN, CWON, CHTP, BAMF.

I get your point. I finished the assignment, so its over. I've had more than enough people make me feel stupid about this, you got your message across too. I understand this is not what allnurses is for.

/username, BSN, RN · Oct 9, 2017

I get your point. I finished the assignment, so its over. I've had more than enough people make me feel stupid about this, you got your message across too. I understand this is not what allnurses is for.

Hold on... you're not OP.....

bgxyrnf, MSN, RN · Oct 11, 2017

Hi,
I'd like to gather insight about different specialties and I have a few questions to ask. Feel free to be brief or lengthy if you'd like. Any response is appreciated.
1) Describe your career path to your current position. Include information about education and experiences. I graduated at 45, spent a year working med-surg, then jumped to the ED. After a couple years I went to a slightly larger hospital ED and then to a level 1 ED then to a level 2 ED with some per diem ICU work. I hold an MSN, a non-nursing BS, a bunch of graduate and post-baccalaureate work, and many years of work in high-tech pre-nursing. I have an RN license and a PHN license as well as a CNL. I've taken a bunch of professional education pertaining to emergency and critical care nursing.
2) Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force in delivery of nursing care at your facility. We strive to follow all of the national standards and are a designated center of excellence in a variety of specialties.
3) What safeguards and decision-making support tools are embedded in patient care technologies and information systems that support safe practice at your facility? I don't know and I don't care.
4) Tell me about patient care technologies that have improved patient care at your facility. I don't know and I don't care
5) What groups of healthcare workers rely on you to collect high-quality information or data and how is it utilized?Nobody relies on me for data.
6) Please describe what a typical day on the job is like for you. I clock in, try to keep people alive for 12 hours and alleviate their suffering as best I can, take a nap during my lunch hour, clock out, and go home.
7) What is your job title and credentials?Staff Nurse II, MSN, CNL, CEN, RN, PHN

My responses in bold