Medicine has always been something I could see myself enjoying. I was initially inspired by my older sister who aspired to be a regristered nurse, and then I decided that medicine was a path I wanted to go down as well. However, when I came to college I wasn’t doing great in my natural science classes so I got decided to to into the Aging Studies field where academically I did so much better. This took me off my track to go to medical school and become a doctor but I was determined to get back on track. Which leads me to why I wanted to interview a Nurse Practitioner (NP). I began to do research at the beginning of the semester about becoming an NP, because to me this was my second chance at being half of what I dreamed of when I was a child.
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She returned my phone call the next day and set up a time to meet her at the hospital during her lunch Thursday the 15th of October. We re-introduced ourselves because I had previously met when I was an intern at the hospital. We held our interview in one of the meeting rooms on the 4th floor of the hospital; which was an optimal setting becasue I had been in that room plenty of times, so had she, so the both of us were physically comfortable. The only thing that I have to say about the room is that because it’s on the actual hospital floor and not in the office building is that there can be some distractions from the nurses, patients, and doctors walking around. Allie and I didn’t use the normal interview opening, simply because we already knew eachother so we did a little catching up instead. She asked me how I’ve been since my internship there, and how school was going. I informed her that school was going well and then went into explaining what the interview would consist of, and procceded with the questions I had prepared. What I think could have better at this point was that, I could have asked how thingswere going at the hospital and any interesting cases that she’s had to make the conversation more comfortable, but I didn’t think about it until after the
She returned my phone call the next day and set up a time to meet her at the hospital during her lunch Thursday the 15th of October. We re-introduced ourselves because I had previously met when I was an intern at the hospital. We held our interview in one of the meeting rooms on the 4th floor of the hospital; which was an optimal setting becasue I had been in that room plenty of times, so had she, so the both of us were physically comfortable. The only thing that I have to say about the room is that because it’s on the actual hospital floor and not in the office building is that there can be some distractions from the nurses, patients, and doctors walking around. Allie and I didn’t use the normal interview opening, simply because we already knew eachother so we did a little catching up instead. She asked me how I’ve been since my internship there, and how school was going. I informed her that school was going well and then went into explaining what the interview would consist of, and procceded with the questions I had prepared. What I think could have better at this point was that, I could have asked how thingswere going at the hospital and any interesting cases that she’s had to make the conversation more comfortable, but I didn’t think about it until after the