Rn Lifereview Interview

The nurse I chose to interview has been a family friend for a while, as she has worked closely with my mother for several years. She is the first nurse I met when I decided I was interested in going into the nursing field, and she is actually the person who encouraged me to apply to Truman State University’s nursing program. I was confident that she would be able to share her capacity of nursing knowledge and wisdom with me when I asked if I could interview her. I will expand on our interview which took place in her office at work throughout the next couple of pages, and to keep confidentiality, I will allude to her by her initials, J.W.

Answer the following questions in 100 to 200 words each. Provide citations for all the sources you use.

Successful aging is a complicated and multifaceted concept that varies contextually among individuals, disciplines, and even time. Gerontologists have traditionally considered a person to have aged successfully upon having reached old age with their physical health, mental well-being and spirit still intact. Ultimately, successful aging is a matter of personal perspective, largely influenced by an individual 's values and experiences. Even those within America 's elderly population hold conflicting perspectives on what it means to have aged successfully. A qualitative study published by Reichstadt and Sengupta titled Older Adults ' Perspectives on Successful Aging, concluded that “older adults viewed successful aging as a balance between self-acceptance and self-contentedness on one hand and engagement with life and self-growth in later life on the other” (Reichstadt, "Older Adults ' Perspectives on Successful Aging: Qualitative Interviews", pp. 567-575.)

I had the privilege of interviewing a 60 year old gentlemen who I will identify as Mr. E to protect his privacy for this assignment. The goal of my interview was to gain insight on aging from an older adult. I interviewed Mr. E in his home on a weekday evening. He expressed appreciation and was surprised that he was the focus of an interview in which his life story and thoughts would be recorded.

The request for approval for the interview was completed through telephone conversation. The subject was informed that the purpose of the interview was to obtain her recollections of her lifespan with specific emphasis on adolescent through middle age. The interview was taped with permission and then typed into word document. The subject was asked a sequences of general questions for the purpose of establishing the subject’s personal history. The subject was also asked to list the major highlights, accomplishments and expectations for the next five years of her life. Following this, the subject was asked 21 focus questions. The interview was then concluded with a words of

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

When was the last time you were in the hospital or a loved one was in the hospital, and ever wondered where the nurse is, and they haven 't returned for hours. You finally push the assistance button several times, and they open the door and hurriedly say, “I will be right back”, then you don 't see them for a while again. When they come back to check up on you, you explain to them what you need, and then they send in a less qualified staff member to assist you. At this point, you become very annoyed and frustrated not to mention scared to be admitted in the hospital to begin with. Little do you know, your nurse has ten other patients and other non-nursing tasks that they are responsible taking care of. They have been working a double shift and are extremely exhausted, and a large stack of charts that they will have to do before their shift is over. As a patient, you now become frustrated and are not happy about this; as a nurse, they are just as frustrated as you are, not only because the amount of work they have but more importantly they can 't deliver the appropriate care they long to give. For most hospitals they do not hire enough registered nurses for reasons that are good and bad. This is an issue that needs to be addressed not only locally but nationally and on a constant basis. When there are too many patients for one registered nurse to attend to, nurses become exhausted, mistakes are made, and patients are unsatisfied. A minimum nurse to patient ratio needs to be

Empathy: Carissa is very empathetic to all her patients. She puts herself in their shoes. She is able to identify and share emotions while providing the best care possible. She treats her patients as she wants to be treated (Wilson 2012).

As part of the course requirements, I had the privilege to interview four individuals, who belong to the age group of above sixty years. The interview was structured to identify the issues that they face, the most disturbing issues that they encounter and the comfort factor that they have.

Thank you for conducting information session for internationally educated nurses at York. It is my pleasure to attend the session. At present, I am a Registered Nurse in Texas United States and in Nepal. I have completed NCLEX and jurisprudence examination of RN in Ontario. After the introduction of NCLEX in Canada in January 2015, I had a strong hope that CNO would recognize my education as equivalent to Canadian RN but they did not. Decision of CNO made me disappoint. But I could not leave my passion for nursing after serving many years in my profession. Then I decided to upgrade my education.

The older adult I had the opportunity to interview was my boyfriend 's step grandmother. I met her a few years ago when we took a vacation in Florida, and thought she would be a great person to interview, because she is outgoing and has aged well. I conducted a telephone interview for this assignment, because she is currently in Florida for the remainder of the Spring season.

The reader could also increase positive relationships with older individuals, by eliminating all negative depictions of the elderly from her office, and replacing them with positive images. Displays of magazines depicting older individuals being active and happy, or simply educating coworkers who hold negative feelings towards geriatrics would also be beneficial. The reader could also actively seek trainings that were specifically geared towards working with the elderly community, to gain a better understanding of strategies and techniques that could be beneficial. The reader has spent her career, thus far, primarily working with teens and children, so further education on ways to positively interact with the elderly effectively, would be welcomed.

To have a better understanding about the process of aging and what it means to someone who is considered an old adult, I interviewed someone who is seventy-five years old. This person is a female whose name is Margaret James. Mrs. James is an only child who was born in the island of Jamaica. However, at the age of twenty-one, she and her family migrated from the tropical island to England. This was because Mrs. James, at that time wanted to pursue a career in nursing. And so she

I will first talk about my interviewees, who they are, how and why I chose them, what questions I asked them, and what their responses to those questions were. I will discuss what my findings were, if the responses of the interviewees corresponded with what was in the literature or not. Lastly, I will summarize in my conclusion, what I learned while completing this project.

As we grow older our lives evolve and change in certain aspects. Stereotypes force us to believe that we become frailer. These stereotypes push younger generations to overcompensate for this delicateness. Not only does the way that society treats you change, but also other aspect of your life progress to match the new lifestyle that you live. These changes include who you include in your social circles and who you find most important in your life. I talked with a woman named Jane, this is a pseudonym, who is a member of the older adult community to better understand the changes that occur later in life.