| Master’s Prepared Nurse Interview | | 5/21/2014 |

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When one interviews another about their career path, one learns many things about a person. This paper will be an interview with a person to be referred as Michelle Smith for writing purposes. While interviewing Smith, I realized that my nursing experience has mirrored hers in many ways. Various universities have similar missions and viewpoints. Nursing is truly a lifelong learning process; age does not determine when nurses stop learning.
Summary of Nursing Career
Smith is currently a master’s prepared nurse teaching in an associate level nursing program. Smith adopted a life learning path early in her career. She was an adult student in an associate level nursing program with a husband and two teenage daughters at home. In 1990, she graduated and she began working as a registered nurse. At this point in history, according to Smith, it was highly recommended that two years of medical-surgical experience be obtained prior to working in specialty areas. After working her two years on a medical-surgical unit, she transferred to an eight bed intensive care unit. “It was a different environment back then. If we had a code during the night we ran the code until the doctor made it to the hospital from home. One night a physician was sleeping in his car because his wife was mad and locked him out of the house. He didn’t know we were calling him, so a security guard drove to his house and knocked on his car window” (Smith, 2014).
In 1998, though still working in intensive care, Smith wanted to further her formal education. She returned to college and over a three year