Had my interview Figured u guys would be interested :P

Specialties CRNA

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Specializes in I know stuff ;).

Hey all

Well, let me run down the interview for you.

- started with hellos and a board of 3 ppl sitting in front of me inckuding the program director.

- basic questions about my background and education as well as experience.

- Begin 10 case studies.

- Case studies included IABP cases with waveforms i had to interpret related to the case, also included swan waveform strips related to cases which i had to interpret and discuss Tx. Also included vasious 12 leads with dx's i had to make of wpw, lgl, brugada other long QTs, basic ST elevation, depression and flipped T's. Hyperkalemia with acute t waves, in the MIs i had to relate the elevation to the coronary involved and where on the heart that would be as well as what i may expect as a complication for that location of MI. They had an intubation laedarl dummie there that they wanted me to bag and intubate with both the miller and mac blades. There was more, but you get the idea

This reminded me of FN interviews only 100X more intense. I asked afterward if this was a typical interview. They said it was not typical and in fact, none were. Interviews were always related to the experience and workplace of the individual who is interviewing. Skills, both physical and technical are evaluated based on the workplace, job desc. if the person interviewing. Essentially, i was hammered. Tough interview.

In anycase, it was an excellent experience and i want to say that all of you here have helped me enormously in regards to this issue. If not for the ppl here who started making me question how indepth my pharm. knowledge really was i would not have nailed some of those questions at all. Especially the propofol ones!! hehe.

I appreciate all the help and if im lucky, i might have gotten in we shall see.

In anycase, it was awesome and im excited to get on with things and learn more here! WooHoo! Im stoked!

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daaaaaammmmnnnn!! Guess that's what you get for being a smartass, Mike...LOL! :lol2: Just kidding. Good luck...hope the intensity of the interview was a positive sign.

rayman

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What kind of position were you interviewing for? :)

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Specializes in Vascular/trauma/OB/peds anesthesia.

Sounds like President of the Universe.

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This was worse than my interview, which is considered a "tough" clinical based interview.

Hope you don't mind, but they stuck it to you because you are a FN.

I bet you talked a good game on interview or when you sent in paperwork (hey don't we all, trying to set ourselves a part?) and they thought they'd play "break the FN".

Sounds like you did very well.

CONGRATS!!!

:w00t:

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Where was this interview?

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Hey all

Well, let me run down the interview for you.

- started with hellos and a board of 3 ppl sitting in front of me inckuding the program director.

- basic questions about my background and education as well as experience.

- Begin 10 case studies.

- Case studies included IABP cases with waveforms i had to interpret related to the case, also included swan waveform strips related to cases which i had to interpret and discuss Tx. Also included vasious 12 leads with dx's i had to make of wpw, lgl, brugada other long QTs, basic ST elevation, depression and flipped T's. Hyperkalemia with acute t waves, in the MIs i had to relate the elevation to the coronary involved and where on the heart that would be as well as what i may expect as a complication for that location of MI. They had an intubation laedarl dummie there that they wanted me to bag and intubate with both the miller and mac blades. There was more, but you get the idea

This reminded me of FN interviews only 100X more intense. I asked afterward if this was a typical interview. They said it was not typical and in fact, none were. Interviews were always related to the experience and workplace of the individual who is interviewing. Skills, both physical and technical are evaluated based on the workplace, job desc. if the person interviewing. Essentially, i was hammered. Tough interview.

In anycase, it was an excellent experience and i want to say that all of you here have helped me enormously in regards to this issue. If not for the ppl here who started making me question how indepth my pharm. knowledge really was i would not have nailed some of those questions at all. Especially the propofol ones!! hehe.

I appreciate all the help and if im lucky, i might have gotten in we shall see.

In anycase, it was awesome and im excited to get on with things and learn more here! WooHoo! Im stoked!

THANK YOU BIG BROTHER MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?!?!?!

That made my interview look like a walmart trip. I hope you got in man for all that abuse.:monkeydance:

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho.

LOL forget the orientation, they are gonna put you straight to work and you should be able to know ALL of what they want. LOL,, jus kiddin.

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Specializes in I know stuff ;).

yah the whole thing was a shocker.

The interview board made no secret that the reason they grilled me was due to my resume. So, i asked for it. hehe.

RN and Ray are right, we always try to do something that sets us apart from others. Well, it set me apart in a way that lead to testing the validity of my resume i think. It was hard. I really dont know how well i did because it is all such a blurr. They seemed pleased, i think thats good. :p

As for the exact school, i cannot say. I was explicitly told after the ass-kicking that the interview practices of the school were confidential and it may jeaprodize my admission if i was found to have "given hints" to others. It seems a fair request. I think it was mostly in regards to the cases they used as i got the impression they use the same ones for every admission (to one degree ot another) interview to guage experience.

Wish me luck. I dont think ill know for a month orso

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I think you probably hit the nail on the head there Mike about "testing the validity of my resume". I'm sure no school invites anyone to interview that sounds like crap on paper, so they cull with the interview. I bet you proved your point.

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Specializes in I know stuff ;).

i can only hope ;)

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Holy crap! They really nailed you. Well, my CV has 28+ years as a CC nurse and my CV nursing MSN, so I better remember every arcane thing I ever knew and forgot about the heart! :chuckle Digging out the grad school notes....OMG, they may ask me about the statistical tests used on my thesis research.....sh*t.....this could be bad.:eek:

I was going to say that forwarned is forearmed, but I'm reserving the right to change it to forewarned is ****PSYCHOTIC****( and this is only the interview, for gods sake....)

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