Interview with Ambulatory Surgery

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Specializes in ICU, ED, PICC.

Hello!

I am a new grad that graduated in May 2011, so yes, it has been a YEAR, ugh. Anyways, no moping about that. I'm here to ask your advice for an interview for ambulatory surgery at my local hospital. I barely remember my 8-hour rotation in ambulatory surgery in nursing school, which probably happened 3 years ago, so any advice/information would be incredibly helpful! I need to nail this interview and I don't want to be not selected because I'm lacking information/experience.

If someone wants to go the extra step, maybe throw out a couple of scenario questions? :)

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Specializes in Ambulatory Surgery, PACU,SICU.

I work in Ambulatory Surgery in a hospital and we do everything. Admissions (adult and peds) IV starts, meds, IV meds, order labs and tests, prepare consents, charts, recoveries post-op, discharge teaching, post op phone calls the next day, and all the regular things that go with patient care.

There is a lot of variety with patients and surgeries and the schedule varies a lot. Are you applying for pre or post-op? Or does the staff do both?

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Specializes in ICU, ED, PICC.

Thanks for responding!

The posting didn't state if it was pre or post-op, so I'm guessing that it may be both? I wish I asked the recruiter for more info about the floor, but I guess I didn't really know what to ask since I don't know much about ambulatory :\ I was just excited to be set up for an interview.

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