interview yesterday??

[blondnurse]

Just wanted some advice after my interview yesterday. How important do you guys think when you interview and they ask you clinical questions and you cannot answer the questions or you answer them incorrectly. How much of an impact does that have on whether you get into the school or not?? I think the rest of my interview went well and i have alot of good experience and will be taking my CCRN next week and am involved in a lot of commitees at work and have a nurse for 6 years with a wide variety of experience. I also have a very good GPA, decent GRE score. Whats my chances?? Do you have to answer all the questions right?? How much weight??

[perkizme]

I don't believe they expect you to know everything- sometimes they want to see how you work your way through a question (your thought process). Everything else you have may overshadow the interview question (hopefully). However it is probably relative to the ? and your experiences - for examp, if someone worked in a CCU/CVICU for 5 yrs and can't explain hemodynamic parameters and what they measure, then thats a problem of course.

[putmetosleep]

I don't know for sure, since the schools I've interviewed at haven't asked any clinical questions..but I would imagine it would be better to say you don't know than to answer incorrectly or to guess..Good luck though! I hope it went okay

[loveanesthesia]

No, you don't have to answer all the questions right. It's the waiting that's getting to you. Good-luck.

[blondnurse]

Thanks guys for all the support, I knew the answers after I left. Its like I couldnt spit them out right then and there, not really even that hard of questions. Just wanted to make a good impression and succeed with the interview. So if someone got all of them wrong or all of them right it will not make a difference?????