Interview Help!

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Hi, I'm in my last year of nursing and am going for an interview for the OR next week. Please help me with any advice you can give me.

What will they ask me? How should I answer? What are they looking for me to say? Any advice would be wonderful. I want this sooooooo bad I dont want to mess it up because of the interview. Thanks.

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Specializes in RN- Med/surg.

Enter "interview" in the search box and you will get LOTS of help. Not that I don't want to respond....but I'm tired, and too lazy to type out all my advice tonight..and I know I've responded to MANY posts of this question. Even if they aren't OR...You'll find good advice for interview skills.

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Just discussed: You can refer to this thread.

https://allnurses.com/forums/f39/what-s-ask-future-employer-273549.html

Good Luck

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Thanks for your help guys. I got the job! so happy. The interview was over an hour and boy did researching how to interview help. I looked through all the threads I could find here and got some great tips. I think the biggest thing that blew them away is that I knew their OR stats. I looked through the hospital foundation website and they quoted a bunch of great information to wow the public to donate money. Well that info totally paid off :)

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It's always good to hear that people were able to benefit from information gained on this website. Welcome to the world of OR nursing.

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Specializes in OR, PICU.

I agree that this website provided lots of great help, in preparing for my interview, I searched WAYY back. Great information, great tips to anyone else looking to go into OR nursing and preparing for an interview. I will be an OR nurse starting March 4th, SOOOOO excited!!

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Specializes in LTAC, OR.
Thanks for your help guys. I got the job! so happy. The interview was over an hour and boy did researching how to interview help. I looked through all the threads I could find here and got some great tips. I think the biggest thing that blew them away is that I knew their OR stats. I looked through the hospital foundation website and they quoted a bunch of great information to wow the public to donate money. Well that info totally paid off :)

What do you mean by OR stats?

And what other interview questions did you ask that they were really impressed with? I'm really hoping to work in the OR. :)

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OR stats that I got from the website were how many surgeries they perform a year, how many open heart surgeries they did last year, that they're the only hospital in the fraser valley to do this and this etc. Just specific stats from the hospital website.

The questions were standard interview questions but preperaing for them paid off.

There were things like what are your strenghts, weaknesses, why do you want to be an OR nurse, why this hospital, what led you to nursing, what do you see yourself doing in 20 years, why should we hire you. Specifically, the hospital is a level one trauma hospital and they don't hire students (i'm in my 4th year and i'm hired as an "undergraduate nurse" - it's a Canada thing) so they needed to make sure I was ready to work in an OR where the slate changes by the hour. They even asked me about my health cause it's such a busy OR. Just standard things but I guess they're asked for a reason.

I asked them about the retention rate, why nurses leave when they do, about my perceptor, schedule. I asked them if it'd be possible to work for a day in PACU, and Pre op and the sterile processing place and they loved the fact that I wanted to see the whole OR picture. Things like that. J

ust practice your answers and questions so you're prepared. Don't go in thinking you're gonna wing it. It's just not worth it if you think this is what you want to do.

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