Two major takeaways I got from reading this interview are that nursing can be a very rewarding job, even though nurses face a lot of challenges. Another takeaway I received from this interview is remembering that nurses are important to the healthcare system and need to work as a team. Just like how they need doctors to do their job properly, doctors need nurses to do their job properly as well.
The interview was structured as a Q&A. Some elements of the interview report were that the interviewer asked frequently asked questions, personal questions like “why you chose to be a nurse?” or “what challenges that you faced as a nurse”, and professional questions.
The purpose of the interview was to find out what nurses do daily, the challenges they face, and the positive and negative aspects of their job, in order to inform and prepare students to become nurses.
Some questions that were discussed were:
How much money can I expect to earn once I become a nurse?
What does your job look like on a daily basis?
What are some challenges that you face as a nurse?
What does the typical nurse schedule look like?
What type of patients do you take care of at your job?
The nurse being interviewed claims nursing can be frustrating sometimes. She backs up her claim by talking about how the healthcare system is a mess, and that some patients don’t take responsibility for their health. She tells the interviewer that patients won’t stop smoking, doing drugs, or won’t start to lose weight, knowing that it’s worsening their health.
The purpose of self-introduction is to present yourself and make yourself known to a new person or group of people. My role in family is being the oldest daughter, as the oldest I have the responsibility of watching over my siblings when my parents can’t, helping them with their homework, or helping them with anything else they need. I communicate effectively with my family members in order to understand their goals and values. I do this by always speaking to my parents with respect and doing what I’m told, by doing this I complete one of the goals they gave me. I follow and understand their values by listening to them when they speak to me and sometimes asking questions. With my siblings I communicate with them more casually and listen to what they need in order to understand their needs, values, and goals.
To me literacy is a person’s ability to read and write. Literacy is important to me because it’s something we use in our daily lives. We read things on our phone, read signs when we’re driving, read about information at school. We write every day, and it helps us communicate with others. We write when we’re texting, doing our homework, or doing our classwork.
Some non-traditional literacies I know are media literacy and civic literacy.
Literacy is important to me professionally because when I get a job, I have to use my reading and writing abilities. I have to use literacy professionally to write or read work emails, text my co-workers, or read the information that is given to me for work.
So in college, I was a government major, which means I had to write a lot of papers. Now, when a normal student writes a paper, they might spread the work out a little like this. So, you know you get started maybe a little slowly, but you get enough done in the first week that, with some heavier days later on, everything gets done, things stay civil. And I would want to do that like that. That would be the plan. I would have it already to go, but then, actually, the paper would come along, and then I would kind of do this. And that would happen every single paper. But then came my 90-page senior thesis, a paper you’re supposed to spend a year on. And I knew for a paper like that, my normal workflow was not an option. It was way too big a project. So I planned things out, and I decided I kind of had to go something like this. This is how the year would go. So I’d start off light, and I’d bump it up in the middle months, and then at the end, I would kick it up into high gear just like a little staircase. How hard could it be to walk up the stairs? No big deal, right? But then, the funniest thing happened. Those first few months? They came and went, and I couldn’t quite do stuff. So we had an awesome new revised plan. And then –(Laughter) But then those middle months actually went by, and I didn’t really write words, and so we were here. And then two months turned into one month, which turned into two weeks. And one day I woke up with three days until the deadline, still not having written a word, and so I did the only thing I could: I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours, pulling not one but two all-nighters –humans are not supposed to pull two all-nighters –sprinted across campus, dove in slow motion, and got it in just at the deadline. I thought that was the end of everything. But a week later I get a call, and it’s the school. And they say, “Is this Tim Urban? “And I say, “Yeah.” And they say, “We need to talk about your thesis. “And I say, “OK.” And they say, “It’s the best one we’ve ever seen.”(Laughter)(Applause)That did not happen. It was a very, very bad thesis. I just wanted to enjoy that one moment when all of you thought, “This guy is amazing! “No, no, it was very, very bad.
Tim Urban giving his TED Talk
Storytelling- Literacy Narrative
I come from a Hispanic background and as a kid I wasn’t exposed to English often, since my mother only spoke Spanish and my father was in the Army. When I started first grade, most of the Hispanic kids in my class and I were pulled out of our classroom almost every day when the class was doing language arts. We all went into a different classroom with a teacher named Ms. Benjamin, who taught us English phrases and words. She drew images on her white board, spelled out the words, and taught us the sound each letter made. I remember when I finally understood what she was saying. She drew a whale on her white board, spelled it out, and had us pronounce the word. After attending a couple more of her classes, I was reading the words on cereal boxes, and attempting to read traffic signs when my mom was driving.
