ISM- MENTOR INTERVIEW ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS

Student Name: Madison Berry Period:7th

Printed Name of Person Interviewed: Ashley Airington

Role of Individual:
__X_ Family Friend
Place/Name of Business: Bay Area Surgicare

Business Address: 502 W. Medical Center Blvd, Webster, TX 77598

Phone Number: 713-417-4857

Date of Interview: 4/7/18

Type of Interview: __X__ In Person

1. For someone working in your field, please describe the fantasies versus realities
of the job.
(fantasy vs. reality)

Fantasies- It’s not Greys Anatomy, You don’t save someone’s life every day, Its
not always happy. Sometimes people are in really bad shape and it takes a toll on your
life at home sometimes
Realities- The doctors aren’t always nice and it gets very stressful sometimes.
There’s a lot of dirty work.

2. What is your current educational level? What continuing education and training
are required?
(educational level and requirements)

She has a bachelors in nursing science. Every 2 years she’s required to

renew her license. She is also given a class to take every 2 years to take a test
at the end to ensure she still has the ability to perform correctly in the hospital
setting.

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3. Please describe the typical day to day activities of someone working in your field.
(day-to-day activities)

She is required to be at work between 4:00am and 6:00am. They can’t wear
scrubs to work anymore so she has to change when she gets there. Spends
several hours taking people and checking them in. Starts prepping for surgery
then receives them back after surgery for recovery and then discharge.

4. How secure are you in your current position? What do you think is the future of
your field?
(job security)
“I feel very secure in nursing in general. The field definitely demands a
little more pay than actual work so I am fearful of them going into debt but as
for me I am secure in a job in nursing.” She feels that they need more workers
for her field of work because there is always too many patients and sometimes
the patients feel that they aren’t being taken time on because of the constant
rush.

5.What is a typical (average or lowest to highest) salary of someone working in

your field?
(salary)

They make an hourly rate of 32-38$. Full time at the hospital was $65-70 a year with
benefits.

6. What potential for growth is there in your field?

(growth potential)
Learning how to circulate the GI. She hopes to be able to learn from some of
the older women that have worked there for a while certain things that they
are really good at that she would like to improve on, basic things like building
a good relationship with your patient so that they feel very comfortable and
trust you.

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***Questions 7-10 will be created by the ISM student.

7. Why did you decide to become a nurse?

She grew up wanting to be a doctor and never a nurse because she didn’t
want to work under a doctor’s wing but when she was in college after
going through 4 years of college she found out she was pregnant. She then
had her baby and decided she would rather go through nursing school
than medical school so she could get done a little faster.

8. What do you think is the most important traits of becoming a nurse?

“Nursing takes a compassionate and caring person who is willing to work hard
for someone else’s good. Nursing is not a walk in the park so when I see
certain people who always look like they hate their job and are mean to
patients I wonder why they even considered nursing. You have to be willing
to work hard and also have sympathy and kindness toward patients.”

9. What is the hardest part of your job?

“The stress and friction of everyone rushing all the time. Always trying to
make the doctors, patients and your co-workers happy can become very
stressful. Having to meet everyone’s needs and keep a calm work environment
is sometimes hard in frantic situations.”
10. What’s your favorite part of your job? “I really enjoy taking care of patients
and getting to know them. It brings me joy to be able to discharge patients and
know that they are feeling better. It makes me happy to be able to help the
elderly to because it brings back memories of my grandparents and only
makes me want to help them and love on them more.”

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 Interview Summary
What information from this interview will you select for your ½ page typed,
bulleted list of research information—to be used in your presentation?
Create a bulleted summary list on the next page.

 I will use the salary part of what she gave me because its interesting how
much the pay changed from a doctor’s office to the hospital.
 Also, I’m going to use the important traits of a nurse because people
need to know that
 I’m going to explain what a GI is
 I’m going to add what types of pain management they use
 About anesthesia

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