Worst job interview ever... funny.

Ok I had to share this...

So I had just graduated nursing school and got my first job interview at UofM on their oncology floor. I was so excited to have a job at the place I wanted to work for so long (not necessarily oncology but at UofM).

The interview was a 3 part interview and it was long. First a 3 hour job shadow of the floor to see patient ratios, the floor meet some staff etc. Then an interview with 3 or 4 staff members (my mind is still fuzzy) and then another interview with 2 managers.

So if the long day wasn't enough to scare the crap out of me, I had quite a drive ahead of me to be there at 7am. I was also 21 or 22 weeks pregnant with baby number 2. I ate a decent breakfast in the car (McDonalds and I brought a fruit smoothly with me). LOL or so I thought.

I arrived and listened to report and began the job shadow. About 2 hours into the 3 hour shadow I was in a patient's room with the RN and she was doing an assessment (no biggie right?) All of a sudden I got really hot, and felt my heart racing so I decided I'd step in the hallway to cool off, totally oblivious to the what was going on.

One step out the door I began stumbing to find the wall...then it dawned on me the floor is going to hit me really fast and hard if I dont sit down. I sat down on the floor...everything goes blank. LOL yup you guessed it... passed out.

There was no reasoning behind why I passed out. Blood sugar was good, HR was fast but that's normal, all other vitals were great. Nerves? Who knows lol.

After an hour of sitting with the 3 PA's on the floor I was allowed to continue with my interviews. (LOL 2 of the 3 PA's watched me go lights out).

I then did the interview with the nurses... everyone knew except one. The question "How do you handle stress?" was filled with a chuckle in the room about me passing out on the floor. I had the interview with the managers but was so tired and still quite fuzzy that I hardly remember it.

I can only imagine there is a running joke on that unit whenever someone new is doing an interview... "Couldn't be worse than that one girl who passed out "

LOL no I didn't get the job... I think I would have been too embarrased to show my face back there. Anyways I had to share... who seriously does that? At least if it had been nurse messing with a bunch of blood or something gorey I would have had an excuse lol... I'm the girl who passes out to the RN listening to the patient's lung sounds.