Please help me, I have some questions for a nurse.

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Hi, I am a nursing student and we have an assignment to interview a nurse that we know. I don't know any nurses and so I was hoping that someone would help me. I only have 24 questions and I would really appreciate anyone that will help me! Please and Thank You SO MUCH!

1. First I just need your first name and a little bit about you, like where you went to school and work experience and stuff.

2. What appealed to you about nursing?

3. What age were you when you went through nursing school?

4. Had you thought about being a nurse a long time or done any research on it when you began school?

5. What influenced you (positively or negatively) concerning your decision to become a nurse?

6. What do you remember about your nursing school experience?

7. What were the best things and worst things about school?

8. Name several things that you learned in school that are important aspects in your nursing today.

9. What words of wisdom can you give a prospective nurse?

10. Did you work or have other responsibilities while in school and if so, how did you manage all of it?

11. Do you remember having times of doubt or insecurity while in school and how did you deal with that?

12. Did you ever think about quitting nursing school and if so, why?

13. Tell us about your first job--where, what did you do, what was the first year like?

14. What was the most difficult thing you found about adjusting to working as a nurse?

15. How do you think nursing has changed since you were in school?

16. If you have had more than one job, what was you favorite one and why?

17. Discuss a memorable patient you had and what made this patient so important to you.

18. What do you find satisfying about being a nurse?

19. Is it a profession that you would recommend to someone now? Please give rationale for this answer.

20. What do you see in the future for your career? Are there roles or positions that you would like to try?

21. Did you return to school after being a nurse? If so, how difficult was it to return with additional responsibilities?

22. What do you think is the biggest misconception about the role of a nurse?

23. Anything else you would like to add? Can you share any mistakes that you might know about that a new nurse should avoid making?

24. Any advice for me ?

Thank you to anyone who took time out to help me, I really appreciate it!

Brooke

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I read your request and i want to know if you have finished this assignment? If not i may be able to help you. Dedicated

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No I havent! I would love your help!

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I would be glad to help! Contact my agent to setup a meeting :)

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My mother said be a nurse, I had just gotten out of the Air Force and needed a job. I wanted to help people. After 40 years, I don't remember much about school. But here is a true story: I was working in a psych hospital. All of a sudden a"Code blue came over the PA. Code Blue meant that another staff member was in trouble. My friend and I took off running. It was in another building. When we arrived we found the female staff blocking the doorway and a patent kicking the hell out of somebody. Don, who was 6' 5" made the patient disappear and I went to the aid of the guy on the floor. The guy was nothing but a bloody mess. I remember getting him out, all the while talking to him tell him he's going to be all right. All this guy could do was moan. By the time we got him out the doctor was there. We put him in the ambulance and as we wave the Doc said "He isn't coming back". Fast forward five years I was working at the same hospital as an agency nurse. I was going though orientation and had to take a course 'Helping Hands'. As with most of this states courses,I thought that this self defense would be taught by some guy that never even seen the inside of the hospital. As I enter the building I was met with two eyes ,the same eyes that I looked into on that night five years before - the guy I help save. The guy who developed the course that had help so many staff members avoid injury and death. That to me is why I continue in this crazy profession. I wonder how many people I helped by pulling this guy to safety. Oh, yeah, Class was held up for a little while two grown men cried like two five year old girls.

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Merlyn, That is the most awesome story! Thanks for sharing.

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brooke- i have a typed response for this assignment- do you have an email i can send it to? rj

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I'm actually surprised that all the responses were people willing to do the OP's homework for them. Many of us have had similar assignments where we had to interview a nurse, just because you dont personally know one is not an excuse to get your answers from the internet with no work on your part. As seen here, a lot of nurses would be happy to give an interview and you would have gotten one in person and had an interactive experience if you had taken the time to try to reach out to nurses in hospitals or other settings near you. I know this because I had this same assignment and didnt know any nurses myself either.

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I'm actually surprised that all the responses were people willing to do the OP's homework for them. Many of us have had similar assignments where we had to interview a nurse, just because you dont personally know one is not an excuse to get your answers from the internet with no work on your part. As seen here, a lot of nurses would be happy to give an interview and you would have gotten one in person and had an interactive experience if you had taken the time to try to reach out to nurses in hospitals or other settings near you. I know this because I had this same assignment and didnt know any nurses myself either.

It's a whole new word . Nursing and Nursing School are hard enough. Anything I can do to help someone that might take my job over when I retire I do. I just wish could have had the internet when I was in school, but Julius Caesar didn't permit it.

What harm does it do? Will it detract from her care of patient ? In all the years that I have been a nurse not one patient has asked me about assignments that I did in school. They only asked if I could help them. In the real world people just want to know-did you graduate from nursing school, do you have a license and are you CPR Certified. Sorry to brake any student's bubble but these are the questions that I have been asked.:coollook:

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I think a primary objective of these type interview assignments is to provide the students with opportunites to develop skills and practice in TALKING with someone face to face as a means to gather information. Much like we do with nursing history and assessments etc.

We don't walk into a patient's room and hand them a piece of paper listing all our questions, we sit down and talk with them. The more you do the more comfortable and skilled you will become in talking with patients and conducting assessments simultaneously.

Valuable experience is totally lost with this new "format" of students submitting questions here for allnurse members to complete and return.

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I'm all for working smarter not harder, but I think the point you may be missing is that this assignment is to prepare you for the assessment & information gathering/therapeutic listening that will be a crucial role for you as a nurse. Also, the ability to reach out and build rapport with professionals you do not know personally is a must and would certainly be encouraged by this task.

There are "shortcuts" aplenty in nursing, and many are a double-edged sword. I'd take a quick look at what you may be cheating yourself out of by skipping the personal interview, as well as any other assignments that can be skirted.

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I'm all for working smarter not harder, but I think the point you may be missing is that this assignment is to prepare you for the assessment & information gathering/therapeutic listening that will be a crucial role for you as a nurse. Also, the ability to reach out and build rapport with professionals you do not know personally is a must and would certainly be encouraged by this task.

There are "shortcuts" aplenty in nursing, and many are a double-edged sword. I'd take a quick look at what you may be cheating yourself out of by skipping the personal interview, as well as any other assignments that can be skirted.

You may be right. When I went to school (1970), we learned this on the job. How to approach staff and patients, talk to them professionally. But that was 41 years ago. We had theory for 4 months, worked 8 hour shifts right along side of the hospital staff, remained 2 hours after to talk about any problems that we had, for 4 days a week, then we went back to school for Friday classes. I think this was a great way to learn what we were getting into but not a good way, how can I put this, to gain the nuances that I have notice in today's Nurses.:nurse:

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