Your Story
Adding your story to the Nurse’s Journal is free. Your story will be placed in the queue to be published on a first-come, first-serve-basis. When you are complete with the survey, you will have the opportunity to either post it to the Journal as described above or you can opt to have your story edited by a professional journalist for $49.99.

Thank you for deciding to share your information. I have three requests: This forum is accessible to the universe. Be conscientious about the regulations and the vulnerabilities regarding the information you share. De-identify the patient, organization, and institution information. In other words, be smart! Nurses consistently repeat three themes:

  1. This forum is accessible to the universe. Be conscientious about the regulations and the vulnerabilities regarding the information you share. De-identify the patient, organization, and institution information. In other words, be smart!

  2. Nurses consistently repeat three themes:
    1) nursing is a diverse profession and
    2) once you're a nurse you can choose any career track and
    3) there are differences over the decades in the way nurses have been educated and each way has pros and cons. Too much repetition makes for a boring collection of stories. In other words, no need to repeat these three points!

  3. Everyone's time is precious, yours included. Answer the questions in a way that is rich with detail and conveys your thoughts and emotions, but please bottom line it. In other words, keep your answers lively, interesting and brief.

 

Confidential contact information to share with me:

* Your Name   
* Personal email address:   
* Surface mail address:   
* City:          State          ZIP   
   * Direct phone number:   
* How would you like your
    name and credentials to
    be listed for your story?
    Example: John Jones, MN RN CVOR   
* Check here for authorization (every box must be checked before proceeding):

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Your Story Details


1. Your Name:

2. Your Credentials:

3. Succinctly list where you went to school and how your education evolved?

              


4. Succinctly list how your career has evolved?

              


5. What inspired you to become a nurse in the first place? Be descriptive here:

              


6. If your source of inspiration is a person, what did that person say
    to you when you told them of their influence?

              


7. Please share a story to warm our hearts or to teach a lesson.

              

8. Does nursing ever get hard? How? Do you ever think about quitting? What   
    keeps you motivated to coninue?
              

9. Continuing on in a position is not the same as being committed to a 
    profession. How do you differentiate these realities? What is the source
    of your commitment?
              

10. What were your impressions of nursing when you were a new nurse?
       How have your impressions changed over time? What is your impression
       now?
                 

11. Nursing is an ever changing field. What changes have you noticed in your
       years as a nurse?
                 

12. What changes do you predict in the near-term? What impact do you think  
       those changes will have? How will those changes impact your role, your
       identity or your commitment as a nurse?
              

13. What would you like your supervisor, charge, manager, director, chief 
      or administrator to know? Be nice.
                 

14. What would you like your direct reports to know? Be nice.
                 

15. If you were asked to participate on a panel of your peers in front of a room
       full of nurses, how would you answer these questions?
a. What advice do you have for the nursing profession?
                        

b. Nurse shortage and pay are huge issues facing the nursing
    profession. Including them, what are the top 5 issues facing the
    nursing profession and prioritize them.
                        

c. What can "management" do to make work better for nurses?
                        

16. If you could mandate the attitudes and opinions of nurses, what changes
       would you require?
                 

17. What advice do you have for nurses who are flagging, burning out,
       misassigned?
                 

18. Give us a strong finish to your story. What are your final thoughts?
                 
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