Patient Interview Paper

Across the healthcare system there are universal themes that can be applied to several fields of medicine, such as ambition to make a difference, maintaining effective communication, and overcoming obstacles that one encounters throughout his/her career. Six University of West Florida students procured six individual healthcare providers and performed semi-structured interviews with the professionals in order to gain insight into the patient-provider relationship. Five of us interviewed providers in the field of nursing, while one us interviewed a provider in the field of pharmacology. Within the domain of Nursing, our professionals included: a lead RN in the field of cardiovascular/thoracic surgery, a RN that works in the oncology department, a trauma RN who works in the emergency room, a RN who specializes in labor and delivery, a RN midwife, and a pharmacist. While both the midwife and pharmacist practice privately, all the RNs interviewed practice in a hospital setting. In the interest of length, the authors of this paper concluded that there were three characteristics most important to those interviewed: Why they chose their career, communication as a healthcare provider, and obstacles faced. In conclusion of these
Conversely, with the pre-natal and oncological professions, there is a more intimate aspect, where they are allowed to know their patients on a more personal level than the aforementioned; these nurses expressed a level of deeper personal aspect than professional, and trouble in keeping adherence to professional decorum and distance. Simply due to the amount of lengthened exposure, this allowed for the nurses in these two specialties to keep a professional manner, but provide individualized care to the