Medical Assistant Interview Report
The career field that I’m interested in is Registered Nursing (RN) and I was able to have an interview with one of the RN’s at WellStar Kennestone Hospital Medical center by the name of David Snyder. During the interview, I was able to not only obtain the information that I needed, but I also gained further knowledge about my career interest. The following is my interview session with David Snyder.
Q: What’s the difference b/t a Medical assistant and a Nurse?
David: Medical assistants are trained to perform tasks like change this dressing or.. prepare this patient for an examination, while nurses use their own judgement in a nursing process to access the patient, patient’s needs, and provide care based on their own needs, their own interventions, their own ..scientific knowledge.
Q: What made you want to become an RN and What do you like most about your career? …show more content…
A nurse always needs to be here with their patients so the job security, the job availability, the opportunity, I could go anywhere in the country and get a job in a day or week. No matter where I go, I could land anywhere and get a job as a nurse, you can’t say that about really any other profession because the demand is so high and I mean it’s so great. There’s going to be about 1 million nurses that’ll retire & leave the industry in the next 6-7 years leaving about 300,000 working nurses available. So the lifestyle you can live on a nurses pay and the benefits are just outstanding. What i like most about my career is the number of studies you can work in, you can work in hospitals,cruise ships,corporate environments, phone nurses, nurses work with lawyers to help take cases on and redo clinical
Q: What’s the difference b/t a Medical assistant and a Nurse?
David: Medical assistants are trained to perform tasks like change this dressing or.. prepare this patient for an examination, while nurses use their own judgement in a nursing process to access the patient, patient’s needs, and provide care based on their own needs, their own interventions, their own ..scientific knowledge.
Q: What made you want to become an RN and What do you like most about your career? …show more content…
A nurse always needs to be here with their patients so the job security, the job availability, the opportunity, I could go anywhere in the country and get a job in a day or week. No matter where I go, I could land anywhere and get a job as a nurse, you can’t say that about really any other profession because the demand is so high and I mean it’s so great. There’s going to be about 1 million nurses that’ll retire & leave the industry in the next 6-7 years leaving about 300,000 working nurses available. So the lifestyle you can live on a nurses pay and the benefits are just outstanding. What i like most about my career is the number of studies you can work in, you can work in hospitals,cruise ships,corporate environments, phone nurses, nurses work with lawyers to help take cases on and redo clinical