Quality Nursing Assignment HELP!!!

springchick1, ADN, RN · Oct 10, 2015

I think the point is to interview a nurse face to face. Why don't you call the health department or your doctors office and see if you can interview someone there. People don't want to do your homework for you which is essentially what you are asking them to do.

pepsadaisy · Oct 11, 2015

I'm not asking anyone to do my homework for me. I still need to research the academic literature to support my paper. I still need to type up the paper and put the interview in the context of my own words. I still need to answer the supplemental questions.

I'm simply asking for some to let me interview them regarding their job description and those are the questions I'm suppose to ask. I would do the interview in person and did have someone lined up, but she hasn't been available and my assignment is due this week. I don't think I can be faulted for trying to find some kinds of other source for this assignment, despite whether the interview is in person or not. Sorry, but I'm not apologizing for trying to complete this assignment by another means rather than run around or wait for my initial interviewee to become available.

To anyone who will actually be helpful.. If you are available for me to interview, please private message me and I would be happy to set up a phone/online conversation with you.

Nurse Leigh · Oct 11, 2015

Copied with permission from GrnTea (AN member):

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.

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!

JustBeachyNurse, LPN · Oct 11, 2015

You are asking for personal details (name, title, employer, phone #) from members that treasure their virtual anonymity on a public message board that is asking a lot of strangers

Nurse Leigh · Oct 11, 2015

And I grow weary of these assignments that seem to basically want to imply only BSN prepared nurses are worthwhile - yes, I am aware some positions require that level of education but these questions seem almost self aggrandizing.

Mavrick, BSN, RN · Oct 11, 2015

Goodbye.

springchick1, ADN, RN · Oct 11, 2015

I would do the interview in person and did have someone lined up, but she hasn't been available and my assignment is due this week.

I'm sure this assignment wasn't assigned Friday. When the person you were going to interview wasn't available, you should have been looking for a backup. Like a PP said, no one is going to give you their personal info. And how do you know it's really a nurse you are interviewing on an on-line forum.

"Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine."