Description
SAN FRANSISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
Personal Statement
Personal Statement (4 questions) 200 word limit per question in EACH
How does the SF State School of Nursing mission and values align with your goals?*
Describe your personal journey to a nursing career. This is an opportunity to describe an experience that had a meaningful impact on your decision to become a nurse.*
What do you do when faced with stress and pressure?*
Tell us about a time when you experienced a compassionate and caring moment with a person. This can be during your health related work/volunteer experience.*
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ASSIGNMENT II – REGISTERED NURSE (RN) INTERVIEW (see attached rubric for this )
Communication is more than just the sharing or exchanging of ideas and information. It is a
dynamic interchange between communicators. It includes verbal and nonverbal interactions and
is essential to nursing practice.
There are three (3) parts to this assignment:
Interview a registered nurse (RN) with two years or more experience currently in
practice regarding their perception of nursing and the nurse’s “role.” Turn in a two-
to-three-page typed summary of this interview. The paper must be typed in a
summarized APA format. Do not numerically itemize the questions in your paper.
10 points will be deducted from the total score of the paper where the questions
were numerically itemized. However, all interview questions below must be
summarized in your paper.
I. Start your paper with a brief introduction of the RN interviewee – to include
years of experience and current area of practice.
NOTE: Please use the nurse interviewee’s initials or last name only.
II. Questions: (summarize the questions in the order in your paper). Do not
numerically itemize the questions in your paper.
1. What is your perception of the role of the Registered Nurse?
2. Has that perception changed since you first entered Nursing?
3. In what area(s) of nursing have you worked?
4. Did you feel you needed different types of communication for each specialty
area? If so, how did your communication differ?
5. With whom do you communicate most frequently?
6. How important do you believe communication is in a nurse/patient relationship?
7. Are there insights or tips you can give me that you have discovered enhance
communication with patients or others?
III. In more than one paragraphs, discuss how you felt about interviewing the RN. How
effective are your communication skills? Are you comfortable with the way you
communicate? Describe at least three non-verbal cues that you observed the
interviewee using. What did these non-verbal cues mean to you as the observer?
