Interview help, suggestions or tips needed PLEASE!

[Macann]

Hello my fellow nurses!

I have worked as a mental health nurse since past two years. I have been waiting for an opportunity to transitioning to a different speciality.

Finally! I have two job interviews scheduled at St. Joseph's Hospital. I am being interviewed for MICU and Telemetry units.

I am a little nervous. There is this stigma out there towards nurses from a mental health background

I want to do it right, give my best shot to nail it.

Any suggestions on how to prepare for the interview and what to expect.

Thank you for your help!

[scaredsilly, BSN, RN]

You have experience and that counts for a lot. You are going to get questions like "tell us about the worst thing you have seen in practice" "tell us about a conflict with another nurse and how you handled it", and those questions are difficult for those among us who are new, but you should do great on them! Legal HIPAA related questions should be easy as well.

Working in mental health means you have a good idea about behavioral situations. The interview questions are geared toward determining how you react to certain situations and to assess critical thinking skills. They may gear a question or two to the specific unit, so brushing up on that a little is a good idea, but for the most part they just want to be sure you would be a good fit for the team, and the general questions should be a piece of cake for someone with your experience.

Good luck!

[Nienna Celebrindal]

The best advice I can give is youtube, google rn interview and you'll find tons of videos. Watch them, you'll see the trend in questions. Practice the obvious ones.

Know the obvious thing: the hospitals mission statement, values, history.

Since you are mental health they may want to see how you respond to a scenario question that has nothing to do with mental health but does relate to the physical problems that floor handles. So prepare for them, the best way I can think of is review common MICU conditions and cardiac diseases.