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I would like to find a nurse or a nursing student to interview I got 5 questions to ask them

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What are your questions?

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1. What attracted you to the field of nursing?

2. What do you like best about your school/job?

3. What do you like least about school/job?

4. What is one thing about your school/job that turned turned out to be completely different than you expected?

5 . What is one piece of advice that you would give people considering the field of nursing?

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Specializes in NICU, Trauma, Oncology.
I would like to find a nurse or a nursing student to interview I got 5 questions to ask them

Are you in school? Is your assignment to interview a nurse/nursing student? or is it to post questions on the internet that may or may not be answered by a nurse/nursing student?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
What are your questions?

Not really appropriate to ask.

OP, your assignment is likely to interview a nurse, in person, to gain real knowledge about the nursing role. That will not be accomplished by asking online questions of folks who may or may NOT be nurses.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Moved to Nursing Student Assistance Forum

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Specializes in Ambulatory Care-Family Medicine.

I highly recommend you ask these to a nurse in person. Try going to a local LTC and see if anyone would be willing to help you out. Do NOT going during shift change or meal time as those are typically the busiest times. Not everyone on here is a nurse and you can't verify anyone on this site as you don't know our real names to look up our licenses.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

Where is GrnTea when you need her?

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^^^Her standard response should just automatically reply to questions of this nature.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

I FOUND IT!!!! Copied with permission from GrnTea:

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!

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Okay, I'll bite.

1. What attracted you to the field of nursing? Doctors

2. What do you like best about your school/job? Doctors

3. What do you like least about school/job? Doctors

4. What is one thing about your school/job that turned turned out to be completely different than you expected? Doctors

5 . What is one piece of advice that you would give people considering the field of nursing? Doctors aren't like they are on television.

Was that helpful? This is why you need face to face communication to interview someone to answer your questions. I gave you answers, but without the opportunity for you to ask for more information, my answers don't make much sense or could be construed very differently than the context in which they were written.

Now go get yourself a nurse or fellow student and ask away!

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Specializes in NICU, Trauma, Oncology.
Okay, I'll bite.

1. What attracted you to the field of nursing? Doctors

2. What do you like best about your school/job? Doctors

3. What do you like least about school/job? Doctors

4. What is one thing about your school/job that turned turned out to be completely different than you expected? Doctors

5 . What is one piece of advice that you would give people considering the field of nursing? Doctors aren't like they are on television.

Was that helpful? This is why you need face to face communication to interview someone to answer your questions. I gave you answers, but without the opportunity for you to ask for more information, my answers don't make much sense or could be construed very differently than the context in which they were written.

Now go get yourself a nurse or fellow student and ask away!

HAHAHA you beat me to it. I was gonna come up with ridiculous answers as well.

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