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Feb 25, 2007 10:28 AM

Is this how to conduct a job interview?


If you and say 5 other applicants for a job were given a homework assignment, lets say write a care plan for a hypothetical patient in a hypothetical situation, what would PREVENT one of those applicants from taking their homework and having someone else create the careplan,lets say a friend who works as a nurse and is a expert careplan maker, so that it was not the applicant that made the careplan but the expert careplan maker that made the careplan. This applicant turns in the careplan and gets the job not based on her own work but of someone elses, the expert careplan maker. The other applicants made their own careplans, they did not take their work to the expert careplan maker.
Does this seem right?


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from Tiwi
Old Feb 25, 2007, 10:39 AM

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Good point. I wonder if the interviewers took this into account. Surely though, this is not the only pre - requisite required to gain employment? What about references/referees, qualifications, knowledge of hospital policies and ethics, etc etc?
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from plumrn
Old Feb 25, 2007, 10:45 AM

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There isn't anything to prevent someone from doing that, except pride and character, and no, it doesn't seem like a solid way to judge an applicant for that very reason.
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from caliotter3
Old Feb 25, 2007, 10:46 AM

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Not a good practice IMO. Almost all places use generic careplans now, so it sounds more like an exercise in how you were able to function as a nursing student. The time could be better spent.
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Old Feb 25, 2007, 01:27 PM

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Tiwi, this aspect of the interview occured after a dead lock, a deadlock between other applicants. This aspect of the interview occured after the intitial interview,"why do want the job" questions, "what would you do in this situation" questions, after all resumes, qualifications etc. were submitted.
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No. 5
Old Feb 25, 2007, 01:29 PM

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Thank you all for your insights-I shall wait and see what decisions are made , then procede accordingly
Peace Out.
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Old Feb 25, 2007, 01:33 PM

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You can look at this two ways:
1. You might not want to work for a company who based its hiring decisions on one care plan (which the applicant may or may not have written her/himself) or
2. This is a great way for the company to see how resourceful the applicants were. Nursing isn't done in a vacuum. Sometimes knowing WHERE to look for the information is the most important thing.
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Old Feb 25, 2007, 07:09 PM

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Mermaid,
Yes-that would be another way of looking at it.
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from RN007
Old Feb 25, 2007, 08:07 PM

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I am coming off a 20-year career in public relations to become a nurse. I graduate in May. When I applied for PR jobs, editing and writing were at the top of the required skills list. Often we were made to edit documents and write entries right there at the interview, with no way to cheat. Might also be a good way to have nurse candidates create care plans ....
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Old Feb 26, 2007, 08:26 AM

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0072-Yes that seems the way to do it, having the job applicants create the careplans "right there"-and that would be a bit stressful.
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