1. What about nursing was the most rewarding?
 "Being able to help make a difference when someones not healthy, the ability to help make their situation not as bad"

2. Did you feel at all during any point in your career that the job was too hectic, if so what about your job felt so stressful?
"One mistake can be disastrous, somebody could die, so it's that, if you feel like you don't have enough help, when there's not enough help there, and that worry about making a mistake and huring somebody."

3. In one study, it was stated that nearly 46% of registered nurses left nursing because the hours were too stressful, having witnessed this first hand, did you ever personally dislike the shifts you were given, if so what were they like?
"There used to only be eight hour shifts, now there are twelve hour shifts. It wasn't so much the shifts as much as the rotation of the shifts. The hardest part is finding the area of the hospital that you want to stay in, and whether or not they have openings with the shift that you are looking for."

4. Due to increasing reliance on technology, did you ever notice any effect that may have had on  the available jobs for nurses?
"It has definitely made nursing safer, do not feel that you could ever replace what nurses do. Theres too much empathy there, something that technology cannot replace."

5. Did you ever feel that your job requirements affected your home-life?
"Yes and no. You have to adjust to it. You must learn to work your sleep in around the hours and things you have going on in your life. But if you let it, it can have a huge difference on your home life. One of the best careers for having kids because you have different openings at odd hours [compared to other typical careers], where it is made possible that you do not need to have your children in daycare."

6. Overall, at the end of the day, nursing is about caring, can you recall an experience you had with a patient, that made you think to yourself that this was something you wanted to be a part of? 
"Yes, I had been a nurse for about three years. I was working in critical care and a young lady in her twenties came in, she was having a stroke, which was very unusual. It so happened that I was her primary nurse. I remember she had this thick long red hair, and I wanted to make her feel more comfortable so I did her hair, I braided it, and her family came in and just started crying because she always had her hair like that, something that I didn't know prior to doing it. The longer she was there the more I got to talk to her and get to know her family situation, and I learned that she had a stroke because she couldn't afford to take her medicine for high blood pressure. And then a year later she came back, walking in, not because she was sick, and she found me and she thanked me. You get those rewarding 'goosebumps'."