L&D interview

[hikergirl88]

I'm an RN of 14+ years but no L&D experience. Have an interview Friday for a night shift position and looking for any advice for landing the job. I took an online Intro to Fetal Heart Monitoring course and have picked up a couple of spiral-bound quick notes books on maternal-neonatal nursing to refresh myself. Have limited experience floating to post-partum and well-baby nursery but found that I reallly enjoyed it and the whole atmosphere. Thanks!

[Nurse Salt]

I just had an interview for an l&d NOC position a few weeks ago. They realized I did not have any professional experience in the area and acknowledged so by keeping interview questions based in team work, customer service, compassion, patient care, etc. I was worried they would ask really technical questions and figured I would be honest in saying since I have spent my career thus far in MS and crit care I feel I have the proper foundation for building a new skills set but cannot yet answer their questions... Luckily I did not have to do this! I was very nervous, but they seemed to really like me, I got a job offer 2 days later!

Tip from my interview: they were impressed by my examples of how I "individualize" my pt care and how I stress making the patient feel like an person (not patient, customer, client or what ever else we are calling them!) by talking to them and comforting them as needed and as appropriate...

You have been a nurse for 14 years I'm sure you have a ton of experience to pull from, and use that as your selling point, you're not green to nursing just l&d. Good luck to you keep us posted on how things go!