Interview Guidelines Handout With Original Questions
Draft Questions
- What is the biggest challenge you have encountered in your current position?
- What recommendations would you give to nurses that are considering nursing informatics?
- What is a typical day of work for you?
- What skills and qualities should nurse informatics hold?
· Review the Module 2 Interview Guidelines handout.
· Identify a public health nurse informaticist to interview. If you are unable to find a nurse informaticist in a public health department in your area, you may conduct a phone or an e-mail interview, per the Module 2 Interview Guidelines handout. Contact your Instructor for further guidance, if needed.
· Reflect on the interview subject’s area of expertise when choosing the subject.
· You are required to ask the following questions:
o What types of data are transferred from your workplace to the public health department? How does it relate to electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM)?
o How are data shared in syndromic surveillance, disasters, and epidemics?
o What is the current state of health information exchanges (HIE)? What are the strengths and weaknesses of these organizations?
o What are some of the issues in sharing information regarding the monitoring of infectious diseases with other agencies?
o What are some of the current issues in public health, bioinformatics, and biomedical research, and what is the role of the nurse informaticist in relation to these issues?
· You are also required to generate three questions of your own. To do so, reflect on the following:
o Based on the interview subject’s expertise, what questions could expand your knowledge base regarding data and how it is shared?
o What tools are used by the expert in their field to obtain research information, including bioinformatics, genetics, and genomics?
· Set up an interview date or time. Consult the Module 2 Interview Guidelines handout for guidance. In the Module 2 Interview Guidelines handout, you will find a form for the interview subject to sign as proof for the interview occurring.
Part 2: Infographic and Interview Presentation
· Reflect on the responses to the required interview questions and the questions you wrote and asked.
· Consider how to visually represent the job responsibilities of your interview subject in an infographic.
· Analyze the responses in order to present them to an audience.
· The three original interview questions you wrote to ask your interview subject. Your original questions should address how the interview subject’s position relates to public health and informatics.
· The signed statement from the interview subject (or other proof as noted in the handout).
Part 2: Infographic and Interview Presentation
· Create an infographic, based on responses to your questions and the data you gathered from your interview, that explains the job responsibilities of your interview subject’s role.
o This infographic will become the first slide of your presentation.