Anyone an RN?

[perfectpeach]

I need to interview an RN. Would someone mind answering these questions in detail please? A PM would be fine if you feel more comfortable.

1. What is your educational training?
2. What was your motivation to choose nursing as a career?
3. Please describe the work tasks performed in your current work setting.
4. Are you a member or involved in any professional organizations? If so, please explain. If none, please explain why.
5. How has the nursing shortage impacted your nursing practice?
6. What impact do you think the aging nursing workforce will have on patient care?
7. Using Benners Stages of Nursing, how would you rate yourself and why.

use this for question 7 sonoma.edu/users/n/nolan/n312/benner.htm

 

[perfectpeach]

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Anyone? Please… the RN I had scheduled to interview stood me up.

 

[Cat]

Sorry. I’m a medical technologist (lab).

Try calling a local hospital, but I’ll warn you, Sunday is NOT a good day! They are short-staffed due to the weekend, and no one will have time to talk to you.

But tomorrow (Monday), you should be able to talk to the Director of Nursing (DON) at the hospital, and he or she will either talk to you, or find someone else on the hospital staff to talk with you.

 

[CB_Catholic]

I need to interview an RN. Would someone mind answering these questions in detail please? A PM would be fine if you feel more comfortable.

1. What is your educational training?
2. What was your motivation to choose nursing as a career?
3. Please describe the work tasks performed in your current work setting.
4. Are you a member or involved in any professional organizations? If so, please explain. If none, please explain why.
5. How has the nursing shortage impacted your nursing practice?
6. What impact do you think the aging nursing workforce will have on patient care?
7. Using Benners Stages of Nursing, how would you rate yourself and why.

use this for question 7 sonoma.edu/users/n/nolan/n312/benner.htm

I’ll try to help you out.

1. I have an Associate Degree in Nursing and a Bachelor of Arts.
2. I originally chose teaching as a career, but I married and stayed home to raise my children. I graduated from Nursing School when I was 32. I chose nursing because I really always wanted to be a nurse but got sidetracked by my love of literature, and got a degree in English instead. But from the time I was a little girl I was always “caring” for something, and all my baby dolls became “accident victims” where I bandaged them up, or had some illness where I would draw measles or something on them. They all got sick, and I took care of them. I have also always loved biology and science and was certified to teach Biology also.
3. I work in Post-anesthesia care currently. My duties are to monitor adult and pediatric patients recovering from anesthesia, esp. in regards to maintaining their airways, breathing, and circulatory status, level of consciousness, and pain control. I work under the supervision of Anesthesiologists and work with a set of standing orders and protocols that I can initiate at my discretion. I also do some post-op teaching in the recovery room. I am also a critical-care nurse, and often have to take care of a variety of ICU patients. I worked in critical care for 19 years before this position and most of my colleagues have the same background.

In addition, I work in preop to get patients ready for surgery, and in the outpatient recovery area for same-day surgery, a position that requires a lot of post-op teaching.

4.I don’t belong to any professional organizations. For some reason, this was never addressed too much at my hospital, but it is being encouraged more now, esp. since we are a Magnet Hospital.

1. In the PACU where I work, there isn’t much of an impact from the nursing shortage, there are strict staffing ratios that have to be kept for safety reasons, or a part of the recovery room has to be closed, which can put surgery on hold. We do not take on extra patient assignments. Our patients are very high acuity and can become unstable very quickly and need immediate attention. We are actually overstaffed by 1 nurse, and have some on-call personnel. We also are not pulled to other areas, and the hospital does not provide extra staff for us, we staff ourselves, and fill in any shortages with our own staff.
   The rest of the hospital, now that’s a different story.
2. I think the biggest impact the aging nursing population will have on patient care is twofold: one is obviously not enough nurses to care for patients as nurses retire, and the second is a lack of experienced nurses caring for patients and mentoring younger nurses. The quality of care will suffer, and burnout may occur among inexperienced nurses facing too many complicated problems without anyone to turn to for advice and guidance.
3. I think that at this stage of my nursing career I’m probably a 6. But if I transferred to another specialty, that would change.

I hope this has been of some help to you.

 

[perfectpeach]

Thank you so much Carolyn