Application for job

[spaceys]

Hi,

I am applying for a job and am racking my brains:eek: This is what i need :

Please provide an example of an occasion where you had to adhere to strict policies that could not be changed or adapted.

Please give details of the policy or the procedure and the reason why it was in place.

Any ideas anyone???

Tracey :nurse:

[bulletproofbarb]

just choose a clinical procedure..there is reasons why they are in place, best practice research, reduce infection, legal obligations of working by scope of practice, maintaining standards/professional indemnity by following hospital protocol ect.

I think you are reading too hard into it..and thats okay, applications/job stess make our brains curl up and go into serious depth mode but it's a fairly easy question..just analyse a procedure in depth.

another example..giving medications, the things you have to check and policies you have to follow...you cant change that...you have to follow it to the letter, thats what they are asking.

good luck, chill and relax

[carolmaccas66, BSN, RN]

Giving medications is a strict policy. Follow your 5 (or 8 rights, depending upon what they're teaching in each state). Always say in an interview that you would follow that facilities policy re meds (or whatever). Also, they MAY ask you would you follow a policy in place BLINDLY, ie: giving meds w/out questioning odd orders or some such? (I got asked this once at an interview). Remember ur an independent practitioner in ur own right, so of course you query things that don't add up.

They will also give you a clinical scenario to answer, ie: you're the only RN on, everyone else has left the ward (4 whatever reason), a patient is bleeding after an op of some sort, looks pale, diaphoretic, breathing hard - what would you do? Think DRABCD, call for help or call a MET call, control bleeding, etc.

Just think outside the square a little - they want to see what critical thinking skills you have & how you would apply them.

Good luck!

[talaxandra]

Or giving blood products - there's no wiggle room, but assessing the patient pre-, peri- and post-transfusion is part of my hospital's policy.