Job interview question?

[m4blondi]

I'll be graduating in May and at a recent job interview I was posed this question: "If your supervisor was in a patient's room and made a medical or ethical decision that you didn't agree with, what should you do?"

I felt that my answer wasn't what they were looking for and was wondering how experienced nurses would respond to such a question.

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

What is a good response to the question, " What are your weaknesses?"

Oh, this is a core question. Everyone should have a response to this one memorized. I used to do some part time teaching at a vocational school and in one of the classes they had the students make notebook with possible interview questions and prepare their answers to them. This was one of them. Sad to say, I never kept the list of these questions. The opposite is "What are your strengths?"

I'm a workaholic and I can't sit down, especially if I think there is just one more thing that I could do first. If there is something to do, I'll find it. While others might be taking a few minutes to relax, I'll be looking for something to straighten up or clean. There's always something. I'll go an make a quick round of all the patients just to satisfy myself that they are all OK. I'm sorry, but that's just the way I am.

Did I just make myself look bad, or good, to a potential employer?

[MySimplePlan]

I asked my CI how to shine for a recent job interview. Her response to the 'weakness' question was stating you didn't have enough floor experience yet and you were looking forward to correlating your studies to actual floor work beyond the clinical setting.

Obviously, it was for a student nurse position, not a grad nurse job. I'll find out this week if they liked that reply or not!

[caballoazul78]

Oh, this is a core question. Everyone should have a response to this one memorized. I used to do some part time teaching at a vocational school and in one of the classes they had the students make notebook with possible interview questions and prepare their answers to them. This was one of them. Sad to say, I never kept the list of these questions. The opposite is "What are your strengths?"

I'm a workaholic and I can't sit down, especially if I think there is just one more thing that I could do first. If there is something to do, I'll find it. While others might be taking a few minutes to relax, I'll be looking for something to straighten up or clean. There's always something. I'll go an make a quick round of all the patients just to satisfy myself that they are all OK. I'm sorry, but that's just the way I am.

Did I just make myself look bad, or good, to a potential employer?

I seriously cannot decide whether you just made yourself look good or bad, you need to answer your own question, so it can help us!!

I've been on 2 interviews with no luck. I think i'm not interviewing well, and now my confidence is way low. I was looking thru the questions posted on that hospitalsoup website, but i dont know how to properly answer them.. any ideas?