Nursing survey for school

sleepiexnancy · Oct 21, 2013

Hi everyone, can you please help me fill out my survey that I need for school? It will probably take about 5 minutes of your time. My survey is really basic and it is about nurses, patient care, adapting. If you could help me out that would be awesome! Thank you!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BJRKGBG

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Oct 21, 2013

Hi everyone, can you please help me fill out my survey that I need for school? It will probably take about 5 minutes of your time. My survey is really basic and it is about nurses, patient care, adapting. If you could help me out that would be awesome! Thank you!
Nurses and adapting to their surroundings Survey

Aside from the demographics, which could be ambiguous, this looks like a questionnaire aimed at patients, not nurses...

However.

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 an RN face to face. A big email blast is not a substitute for shoe leather. AN is not Google.

See, 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 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 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 and comfort zone.

Go!

KelRN215, BSN, RN · Oct 22, 2013

The format of questions 1, 7 and 8 makes no sense.

Actually, I don't understand any of it. Is this a survey for nurses or for patients? Questions 8 and 9 are aimed at hospitalized patients when you say this is a survey for nurses. There are some nurses who have never been hospitalized themselves. And question 10 assumes that all nurses work in hospitals. I can't do this survey and I think you need to rewrite it.

krisiepoo · Oct 23, 2013

When I had an assignment like this in my first semester of nursing school I was kind of intimidated because it meant I had to go out and talk to people I didn't know. I was fearful of rejection and looking stupid. We had to do this on nursing and foreign cultures (ie interview a nurse from another country). It took some footwork on my part, but I did it and it was a great learning experience. You'll be amazed what you learn when you get out from behind a computer with these questions :)

Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN · Oct 23, 2013

Welcome to AN! The largest online nursing community!

Your survey is unclear and difficult to answer....it seems like it is for patients not nurses.

duplicate threads merged as per the terms of Service

hazel30, BSN, RN · Oct 24, 2013

GrnTea, you always have the best responses. :-)