I interviewed today with a MICU and SICU manager at a teaching facility. It seemed to go pretty good, but the style of the interview was much different than I expected.
I was asked a few basic questions about why I chose nursing as a career and what my future career goals were... and that was it. After I answered the questions, they asked me if I had any questions for them. I asked a couple of questions about their orientation and access to evidence-based practice journals. And then they asked me if I had any more questions... So I asked a few more questions about what they were looking for in an ideal candidate and whether they had a lot of trauma patients in their SICU, etc...
And then after about 25 minutes, the interview just sort of ended. Is this a bad sign????I asked them if they had any further questions for me, and they said no... I'm really worried that I didn't give them enough in the interview. I'm also worried about the future career goals question. I did mention that a medium goal was CCRN certification and that a long-term goal would be NP or CRNA... I also mentioned that I was looking for lots of ICU experience before even thinking about going back to school. Now I'm wondering if maybe I shouldn't have been so honest about wanting to go back to school at all? It's just not my style to spin things or lie about anything. I always prefer to be completely honest with people, but sometimes this may hurt me.. especially in interviews...
