Nurse Interview

A couple of days ago, I got the chance to interview one of my dad’s friends, Nate, about his experiences with interviews. Currently a Nurse Practitioner, he has had over ten different jobs in his lifetime, ranging from a managerial position at KFC to an emergency room nurse. Just like his past jobs, the types of interviews that he has been in have been wildly different. He has even conducted a few interviews himself. Soon I will be participating in important, career-defining, interviews and it is important that I understand the ropes of an interview. I asked him only a couple of questions, but I got detailed answers and invaluable insights from the mind of both a successful interviewee and

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Our healthcare system is ever evolving, remarkably changing the sphere of nursing practice. The roles of Advanced Nurse Practice practitioners are expanding, taking up a multitude of roles across a diversified healthcare specialties. Advance Nurse Practice practitioner stands as leader in this comprehensive profession bridging the gap in management and clinical aspect of care (McDermott & Morant, 2010), reflecting the complexity of culture, organization and practice setting (Hyrkas & Dende,2008) to improve the quality of patient care. This paper is about the interview with a Certified Nurse Practitioner. The Certified Nurse Practitioner interviewed is from the Hematology/Oncology Department in one of the university affiliated hospitals in Chicago. The purpose of the interview is to learn about the competencies needed to successfully perform the various roles of a Certified Nurse Practitioner in this complex health system. The rationale of the interview process is to give an opportunity as a graduate student to “assimilate primary care competencies into specialty nurse practitioner practice that exemplify professional value, scholarship, service, and culturally global awareness” (Chamberlain College of Nursing, 2014) that can be advantageous for my professional development. The interview showed the importance of knowledge of competencies appropriately applied in practice essential in the functions and roles of a Certified Nurse Practitioner within the scope of practice for

Nurse mangers is the leader of a specific department or unit of a healthcare facility. The nurse manager is responsible for recruitment and retention of the nursing staff, collaborating with other health care providers on patient care, and assisting patients and their families when needed. The nurse manager works with administration communicating and interpreting the facility’s policies and procedures to the staff. Usually with other departments in the facility, the nurse managers develop quality improvement measures tracking the patient services and care. According to Espinoza et al (2009), the nurse manager plays a pivotal role in

(Polit & Beck, 2010). As nursing is person-centred and relies on a multidisciplinary team approach it has to take into account the care setting, patient predilections, clinical judgement and best available evidence. (Holland & Rees, 2010).

Scholarship. During my interview for UMMC I was asked if I had a bachelor’s in nursing to which I replied no. I was hired with the agreement that I would pursue my degree with two years of working. This isn’t the ideal way someone wants to continue his or her education. It leaves a bad taste in your mouth feeling forced to pay for more education when you are already licensed as a registered Nurse. At first you feel as though all of the hard work you put into your ADN program is worth pennies because you don’t have BSN next to your name. But then you realize, nursing is no easy task. It requires all that we have learned in this program; the valued ends, presence, praxis, self-care, leadership, advocacy and now scholarship. Having completed

For my interview, I spoke with one of the Nurse Practitioners (NP) that I interact with while working my shift at the hospital. I will call her Terri Smith because although I asked to use her quotes in my paper, I did not think to ask for permission to use her actual name. Where I work, many of our internal medicine physicians are hospitalists. During the night, they are covered by the umbrella of Quest Care. There are several NPs that work under the afore mentioned physicians and are there, on-call, when needed for their clinical expertise. It is nice, because even though I can’t develop much of a relationship with the doctors whose patients I work so hard to take care of, I get to have the opportunity to grow strong bonds with the NPs that I see almost every shift.

The knowledge of and experience of and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) can be of value when examining core competencies. This paper will discuss the nine core competencies stated by The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF). To gain a more complete understanding of how the core competencies integrate into practice an interview of an APRN was conducted. Additionally, an analysis of selected NONPF core competencies will be discussed and how they apply to the roles of the APRN. The paper will end with a conclusion of key points and benefits from interviewing an APRN.

In the future, I am almost positive I want to become a Registered Nurse. Getting to interview a female in the line of work I want to be in in the future was eye opening. Although the interview was through email, I got to learn a great amount that I wouldn’t through books. I got the pleasure to interview Teresa Carr, an Advanced Clinician otherwise known as a Registered Nurse. Interviewing this particular person gave me some insight on how it would differentiate from other careers.

According to my interviewee, the Master’s graduate program as compared to the undergraduate program was more challenging but yet rewarding. This was attributed to the fact that she had a strong passion for informatics and wanted to obtain a higher level of education.

Loving what you do and also being determined to do it right are crucial for being nurse administrators and educators. Watching the video "An interview with a nurse administrator" helps me to understand what to expect as a nurse administrator, although the task might not be the same. It helps me to have an insight on what the nurse administrator's job entails. I have learnt the important of effective communication, prioritizing and delegating task to the staff. According to the video, the nurse administrator interview, your patients and staff's happiness and satisfaction should be your priorities. Nurse administrators should let the staff know that their opinion counts, for the day to day running of the unit. I learnt that career advancement

According to Pepau the goal of nursing is to help the patient find their felt problem. The nurse and patient work together therefore they develop relationship between each other’s. These two individuals with common aim have interpersonal relation. Nursing is therapeutic in that it is a healing art, assisting an individual who is sick or in need of health care ( Pepau 1952). Nurse plays several roles in this relationship. As a resource person, nurse gives adequate information that help patient understanding of issues. As a counselor: a nurse helps patient to incorporate the sense of current life change event, and provides advice for change. Nurse plays role of leader by making sure patient undertakes maximum engagement to achieve treatment goals.

All nurses have the duty to ensure that a patient is receiving safe, high quality attention whilst ensuring the family and community is not impacted in any way. The role of a nurse “encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well in all settings, including the promotion of health, prevention of illness and the care of ill, disabled and dying people” (Potter and Perry, 2017, p4). It is vital that nurses are able to work in collaboration with other healthcare workers, in order to successfully deliver comprehensive care. As a patient’s condition changes over time, they will be passed through various specialists and doctors, however there will always be a nurse there to attend to the sick patient. Thus, a nurse must be able to communicate with a range of people within in the healthcare system to communicate the problems the patient is presenting with, and deliver their detailed medical and psychological history.

How you doing, hope you doing great. My name is Talal I am flinders nursing student. I have been placed to do my placement at Mount Goumber hospital for 8 weeks starting from 17 of August until the 10 of October. I am looking for place to stay during this time and I get your number from student assessment as they recommended me to contact with you. Please let me know if I can use your place during this time.

I was unavailable to meet with the Director of Nursing, due to an unscheduled meeting. I was able to speak with one of the registered nurse at Woodbridge. Her name is Mary Thomas and she has worked there for 20 years. She was able to assist some of the information that I needed. The responsible of the Director of Nursing range from the facility operations in the absence of the Administrator, conducts the nursing process' assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation, participates in facility surveys and Is aware of any incidents at the in the nursing home