Interview

[liz_beth_v]

Hello Everybody

So Im going into an interview tomorrow for a nursing position on a repiratory unit...Any advice or comments on what I should expect. P.S Im a new grad and I dont know what to expect...

Any advice would be greatly appreciated....

[squee-gee]

Hi liz_beth_v,

I just went through all that as a new grad - I don't know how it will go for you, but I had three seperate interviews - one with the HR recruiter, one with the nurse manager and one with the nurse educator for the hospital. The first two were fine - I got questions like why did you go into nursing, what do you enjoy most about nursing, what are your weaknesses/ strengths etc - pretty easy and straightforward. THEN I got to the nurse educator, and she went down this seemingly endless list of "what would you do if" scenerios and questions about situations I encountered in clinicals such as: "Tell me about a situation in which you resolved a patient's problem". :eek:I wasn't as prepared for these type of questions as I should have been, so these were more difficult. I still got the job, but it opened my eyes so next time I will be more prepared. I would make sure you have your basic responses down - the kind of questions asked at any type of job interview (monster.com has lots of good tips), but also think back to your clinicals and try to remember when you solved a problem, most difficult patient and how you dealt with it, mistake you made and how you fixed it - they want to test your critical thinking skills. I'm sure there were other types of questions, but I can't think of them right now.

So relax, take a deep breath, and ace it! Good Luck:D