Job Interview on Monday

Specialties Geriatric

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Okay I have a job interview on Monday. I feel like I am cramming for an exam. If anyone wants to leave me a note go right ahead. I am interviewing at a long term care facility. The reason I asked about time management is I wanted to know what to say if they ask about that. I would like to work 3-11 as it is only part time. If anyone has any "pointers" please point them out to me.

My experience has been in Pediatric Home Care working with disabled children. Parents have asked me a lot of questions like what is that rash around his g-tube site. I didn't know what it was. I said heat rash. With the same case the mother did not want to give him Prevacid. I went ahead and gave it because he needed it in case he did not tolerate his meds well. He was eventually put on Iron and I believe the Prevacid helped him cope with the Iron. He also was put on a Antibiotic. I tried to do it over the phone because his mother did not want to take him to the doctor. We ended up taking him to the emergency room because he had an infection around his baclofen pump site. I don't remember what antibiotic he was placed on. I do think it was a first generation cephalosporin. His mother fired me. But I remain friends with his family. He was trached by the new nurse. I think that was because he always had a lot of upper airway congestion and she wanted to go in their and get that. Prior to being trached he had his spine adjusted. His hours increased and he was placed on a pain killer that he had an allergic reaction to i.e itching all over and rapid respirations. We put him on Vicodin per orders from the surgeon. The surgeons discovered a collapsed lung. he was put on albuterol for that.

My question is should I explain all of this in my interview?

Specializes in Gerontology, Med surg, Home Health.
In response for taking care of babies and taking care of old people are not the same thing...I have to disagree......One a man, twice a child......is the saying.....most elderly become babies again when they cannot care for themselves anymore...they have to be fed, bathed, given meds on a spoon, reminded continuously to do certain things, helped being dressed, toileted....so......yes....they return to an Old infantile way of living...and the job is not easy....I am a LTC/sub acute RN for over17 years....although many nurse in other fields may think its a piece of cake........please....dont listen to them. Its a job that you gotta love....just like any other nursing speciality. Good luck.

I haven't read something so demeaning and disrespectful to old people in years. Old people are NOT babies and shouldn't be treated as though they were.

Specializes in Adult Health.

Old people are like babies? I specialize in geriatrics. They are adults, with their own medical and nursing needs, not a baby's medical and nursing needs. I really cannot believe that is even out here....

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