Case Study: Master's Prepared Nurse Interview

Master’s Prepared Nurse Interview
Jeffrey R. Robinson
Grand Canyon University: Theoretical Foundations for Nursing Roles and Practice
March 4th 2015

Introduction The master’s level prepared nurse is currently in a unique position in healthcare. They are positioned to change the direction of nursing for the future, as it is changing at an ever-increasing rate. I chose to interview M.D., a male nurse with roughly 25 years nursing experience. For the past 6 months he has guided me into a position as his Interim Director. One major draw to interview M.D. is his belief that finance, budget, overall management and advancing education are subjects that are lacking in healthcare and in the operating room. “There is an overall lack of
started his career as a scrub tech out of high school at Loma Linda University (LLU). Encouraged by his father to go to nursing school so he could take care of his mother once his ailing father had passed on, M.D. began his nursing journey. After training as a nurse for 5 years at LLU, M.D. and 2 friends set out on a Journey to Hawaii, and gained experience at Queens Medical Center, where M.D. became charge nurse and received his first taste of OR administration. After 7 years in Hawaii M.D. moved back to LLU to be with family. This is where he met his current wife, whom would take him on a Journey to Oregon and 2 different hospitals over a 6-year period. In that time frame M.D. moved up the administrative ladder and decided it was once again time to return home to LLU, seek a higher level of education and to take a job as OR Director. Eventually he would move up to Executive Director of Perioperative services overseeing 5 sites and a total of thirty-six operating
A master’s prepared nurse will gain insight into a world of nursing, possibly administration, and not often sough after. The master’s program of nursing gave M.D. the ability to advance his career, gain critical skill sets, and become an effective communicator. One of my hopes is to gain the same competencies that M.D., has through this program. This is the reason I have chosen GCU as my program of choice. Master of Science in Nursing With An Emphasis In Leadership In Heath Care, offers skills sets for finance, ethics, policy making, and leadership styles. As health care continues to change direction, so will the direction of nursing and in turn nurses will seek ways to become effective, diverse, and organized in their career