First interview tomorrow!

CoCStudentNurse · Jul 22, 2012

Congratulations on the interview!! :yeah:I have never interviewed for NICU, but I assume it is similar to other new grad interviews. First, do your research!! I cannot stress this enough. Know the hospital's mission statement, core values and information on important programs within the hospital. These are things you can slip in the interview when they ask you "Why do you want to work here?" Second, interviews are usually a mixture of behavioral and situational questions. Behavioral being things like, "Why do you want to work here?" or "What is your greatest weakness?" Situational can be where they describe a patient's condition to you and ask what your first response would be or it can be the famous "Tell me about a time when you .... " Have some clinical examples in mind for these. For example, the one that I got asked the most was, "Tell me about a time when you were faced with a difficult patient/ situation in your clinical experience and how you handled it."

Last thing, be sure to have some questions for them as well. This always looks good, in my opinion.

I hope this makes sense ... I'm quite tired. Good luck with your interview!

LittleFeet:RN · Jul 22, 2012

Thanks so much for the reply! That all sounds like valuable information and i'm glad you can testify to that from previous interviews! I will definitely be brushing up on my questions and answers tonight!

CoCStudentNurse · Jul 23, 2012

Thanks so much for the reply! That all sounds like valuable information and i'm glad you can testify to that from previous interviews! I will definitely be brushing up on my questions and answers tonight!

You're welcome! I did get hired, so I like to think that I know what I'm talking about.