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Hello nurses,

I am an aspiring nursing student and I genuinely am interested in your responses to any of these questions below. Yes, I could google them, but I want your individual, personal experiences, if that is not too much to ask!

  • What made you want to become a nurse?
  • What is the most difficult/best thing about being a nurse?
  • Advice you can give to someone who wants to become a nurse?
  • What other areas or work/careers could you work in with your experience and education?
  • Important skills for this career?
  • How you provide compassionate care to your patients and why it's important to you?
  • Your proudest moment as a nurse?
  • What does your typical work day consist of?
  • What paperwork/administrative duties does this profession require you to do?
  • How do you handle stress and managing your time?

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

Is this a school assignment? It's bullet-pointed, which suggests it was cut and pasted.

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I typed up my questions on Microsoft Word and then copied/pasted them here. It is not a school assignment.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

So these are just questions you came up with on your own? A burning desire to know, if you will?

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

Hi nurse_life! Welcome to AN.com.

Let's see if I can answer your questions....

What made you want to become a nurse?

I got into nursing because my mother refused to bottle feed me.

What is the most difficult/best thing about being a nurse?

Getting Heinz ketchup out of the bottle.

Advice you can give to someone who wants to become a nurse?

Save your old ties. They'll come back into style.

What other areas or work/careers could you work in with your experience and education?

Fastfood.

Important skills for this career?

The ability to have answer poignant questions anytime, anywhere.

How you provide compassionate care to your patients and why it's important to you?

Something is important because we make it important.

Your proudest moment as a nurse?

Answering these questions.

What does your typical work day consist of?

12 hours

What paperwork/administrative duties does this profession require you to do?

Lots!

How do you handle stress and managing your time?

Very well, thank you.

In all seriousness, these questions are asked a multitude of times and answering them gets a little tedious. There are lots of threads you can read pertaining to your subject just by putting a couple of words into the Search at the bottom of each forum's page.

Here's an example:

https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/when-did-you-1108360.html

Good luck to you, nurse_life!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

OP, just so you know.....your questions for nurses are pretty much identical to generic homework assignments to interview nurses. If you do not receive many answers, that will be why.

Your assignment is meant to encourage dialogue between yourself as a nursing student and an experienced nurse. Questions answered on the internet do not constitute dialogue. Plus, you really do not know that the person answering is actually a nurse.

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Specializes in Critical care.
I am an aspiring nursing student

Per Terms of Service you can't have nurse in your username when you are not one.

Also, some of these questions are really personal- proudest nursing moment? That's really asking a lot for a nurse to put that info out on an anonymous message board, not to mention can also put said anonymous user at risk for being recognized.

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