Students requesting help with HW and interviewing a nurse for HW purposes

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...but state you don't know anybody and come to allnurses.com... I'm curious, what would you do if this website didn't existed?

When I was in nursing school, I used allnurses.com and other nursing websites as well as books for their resources which really helped me a lot. It never occured to me to ask for help with my HW. If I needed help, I would go to my instructor or go to a tutor or even a mentor.

Regarding interviewing a nurse, the instructors gave you this HW for a reason. Otherwise what would be the purpose of this HW if the instructors think the students wouldn't know any nurses? If it were me, I would interview my nurse I was partnered in clinicals, ask my instructor if he/she knew any nurses, if I was a volunteer approach one of the nurses at the hospital or even ask my doctor's/child doctor's nurse or the nurse at the school health services for an interview. There are plenty of opportunities to find somebody and interview face to face. This is the beauty of it, because you can see the expression on their faces as she/he recounts her/his experience and how she/he built herself/himself as a nurse.

I'm not trying to be mean. I'm actually curious, for those requesting help with homework, what would you do if allnurses.com didn't existed?

BJ

Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
Actually, quoting Nana! (a friend's grandma) Hear that term thrown around every now and then in the South. :D

LOL. Well, you can tell I'm a hardcore fan of L&O then! I love that expression.

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Specializes in Ambulatory Care, Case Manager.

Dudette, your situation is different. You made the attempt to contact them and that is ok. At least you know the nurses.

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Specializes in Ambulatory Care, Case Manager.
I appreciate your point in all of this, but just because you don't like the particular method some use to accomplish the task, does not mean it's not appropriate.

There are always many ways to accomplish a task and just because someone does something a way you don't approve of does not mean it's not an appropriate way to perform it.

You don't like interviewing online. That's fine. As long as someone is willing to ask, and someone is willing to respond, then what could possibly be the problem?

Again, the question shouldn't be "what if allnurses.com wasn't around", because clearly it is. What if starbucks didn't exist? you would find another way to bribe someone I guess. Point is, Starbucks does exist, and someone used that to their advantage, just as they use allnurses.com to their advantage.

(Sigh) Again, you missed my point. You haven't answered the question.

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Do you think that your instructor made up this assignment so that you can interview a nurse online? I don't think so. The idea is for you to approach a nurse face to face and learn from their experiences. For those making excuses about not being able to find a "real time" nurse....

Dudette, your situation is different. You made the attempt to contact them and that is ok. At least you know the nurses.

I appreciate the exception, I guess, but I thought your reasoning for bringing up this whole issue was the lack of face-to-face interaction. My point was that it is often not required by the instructor.

I'm beginning to think it's your point that help from nurses shouldn't be asked for at an.com.

I've noticed that the nursing student assistance forum has a LOT of questions in it, but people only get riled when the questions are posted in the wrong forum (namely this one). I find it ironic that when the title of the thread clearly indicates it's a student with questions, a handful of people take the time to ever-so-gently rip the student a new one.

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I appreciate the exception, I guess, but I thought your reasoning for bringing up this whole issue was the lack of face-to-face interaction. My point was that it is often not required by the instructor.

I'm beginning to think it's your point that help from nurses shouldn't be asked for at an.com.

I've noticed that the nursing student assistance forum has a LOT of questions in it, but people only get riled when the questions are posted in the wrong forum (namely this one). I find it ironic that when the title of the thread clearly indicates it's a student with questions, a handful of people take the time to ever-so-gently rip the student a new one.

The only time I've seen someone as you put it, "ever-so-gently rip the student a new one" is when students seem to be looking for folks to do their homework (and thinking) for them, and post homework questions, verbatim, with no attempt to add anything.

I've seen this reaction, no matter the forum the request is posted in.

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.

The worst is when the request is written in text/lolcats format: "plz help me...care plan due b4 tuesday...help plz!!!

I almost want to shoot my laptop when I see that. Fortunately, I love my Mac way to much to kill it.

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The worst is when the request is written in text/lolcats format: "plz help me...care plan due b4 tuesday...help plz!!!

I almost want to shoot my laptop when I see that. Fortunately, I love my Mac way to much to kill it.

So true! Generally that message would be posted on Monday!:down:

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Okay think this is enough on this topic.

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