Registered Nurse Interview (Due ASAP)

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Hi, I'm taking an intro nursing course before I apply next year, where we're required to interview a registered nurse to complete our assignment. I would be very grateful if you lovely ladies and gentlemen could assist me. I misinterpreted the assignment and thought any licensed nurse would do, but turns out it was specifically for RN's. Again, I'd be oh so thankful for your time in responding to these questions.

1. How long have you been a registered nurse?

2. In what area of nursing do you currently work?

3. How long have your worked in this area?

4. What are the most rewarding aspects of this job?

5. Why did you choose to become a nurse?

6. What is the most frustrating aspect of your work?

7. Do you recommend nursing as a career? Why or why not?

8. What suggestions do you have for people beginning a career in nursing?

I don't understand why people get so worked up every time a student asks questions for an interview or a homework question. Just IGNORE IT and move on if it bothers you so much. Pages and pages of useless commentary...

I don't understand why people get so worked up every time a student asks questions for an interview or a homework question. Just IGNORE IT and move on if it bothers you so much. Pages and pages of useless commentary...

Like you are...?

I don't understand why people get so worked up every time a student asks questions for an interview or a homework question. Just IGNORE IT and move on if it bothers you so much. Pages and pages of useless commentary...

Did you read this thread? The first page or so was full of useful information that the OP ignored and then FLOUNCED (surprised nobody called that) because the answers we gave weren't to her liking. My new rule is that I'll be nice and helpful until the question is answered or OP gets an attitude then if I want to get snarky I'll get snarky. You are free follow your own advice and ignore whatever you wish.

Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.

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If you have no interest in assisting me then why give commentary? Are people typically this
facetious
here because of the lack of tangible report?

I assumed she meant fractious. ( Which, by the way, is a great word to work into an argument. "Well, you're just being fractious now")

The demand for responses ASAP to an 8-question "interview" is also a little off-putting.

Okay, OP, I recognize that you are in need of some help, so I'll help you out.

1. How long have you been a registered nurse? over 9000 years; I've lost track

2. In what area of nursing do you currently work? SNF / LTC

3. How long have your worked in this area? too long

4. What are the most rewarding aspects of this job? easy job, pays well fwiw

5. Why did you choose to become a nurse? money, job security

6. What is the most frustrating aspect of your work? co-workers acting like teenage girls

7. Do you recommend nursing as a career? Why or why not? yes - easiest money you'll ever make

8. What suggestions do you have for people beginning a career in nursing? don't make mistakes; NETY!

Specializes in Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative.
If you have no interest in assisting me then why give commentary? Are people typically this facetious here because of the lack of tangible report?

Psst, I think you mean rapport

Report is something that happens at shift change over

Rapport: a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well

Specializes in Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative.
Are you intentionally trying to patronize me?

No, however I lack the energy to give you a truly patroninsing answer.

I'm honestly having deja vu, had this same conversation with someone else about 2 weeks ago how people can be anything they want to be on the internet and how a person has no way in verifying that

Walks away muttering something about ground hog day

Specializes in Oncology (OCN).
I assumed she meant fractious. ( Which, by the way, is a great word to work into an argument. "Well, you're just being fractious now")

Awesome word! I had an idea of what it meant but I looked it up nonetheles--well, because I love words.

fracticious means--irritable and quarrelsome (typically children)

--difficult to control; unruly (of a group or organization)

I like it. I like it a lot!

Awesome word! I had an idea of what it meant but I looked it up nonetheles--well, because I love words.

fracticious means--irritable and quarrelsome (typically children)

--difficult to control; unruly (of a group or organization)

I like it. I like it a lot!

Or frabjous.

Lewis Carroll. Jabberwocky.

Did you read this thread? The first page or so was full of useful information that the OP ignored and then FLOUNCED (surprised nobody called that) because the answers we gave weren't to her liking. My new rule is that I'll be nice and helpful until the question is answered or OP gets an attitude then if I want to get snarky I'll get snarky. You are free follow your own advice and ignore whatever you wish.

I was too busy flouncing over the fact that they closed that other thread where "my" butt (or whatever that was) was posted by a certain Dialysis RN before I got a chance to kick him in the HD.

Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
I don't think some of you bothered to read. The snarkiness are within "some" of these comments. I don't make habits of trolling what I thought to be informational forums. So I'm lead to believe that this was just an unreliable source and none here have real credentials based on these responses. I clearly expressed that my interview could be in any form. In person, over the phone and even through the internet. If you do not wish to assist me then you have free will not to oblige. Why the recriminations? This project was to reinforce what we've studied. There aren't any names attached to it. It's just one to two page paper. I had already completed what I thought to be the criteria but the syllabus was updated with that specific clarification of only RN's. Trying to reach out to these local organizations are just coming up short so I thought to chance here.

It's not that no one here has credentials; unfortunately, we get people here who pretend to be nurses for any number of reasons. On an anonymous board, people can try to be whatever they want. As mentioned before, there are plenty of people here who feel that because they work as an MA or CNA, they can comment on the nursing profession because they know "just as much as a nurse." It's BS, of course, but there's no way for you to know the person you're talking to isn't a nurse.

I'm sorry it's down to the last minute for you, but I'm hoping you can still find someone to talk to.

I was too busy flouncing over the fact that they closed that other thread where "my" butt (or whatever that was) was posted by a certain Dialysis RN before I got a chance to kick him in the HD.

HaHa! It cost half a paycheck to get it closed before you could reply. Totally worth it. Hope mom doesn't see it.

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