NEED HELP!!! Interview question (best answer)

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NEED HELP!!! Not sure if this question will come up when I go interview but a friend told me she had been asked this. The question is "What would you do if you had your pt list and had organized your priorties and an emergency came up, described what you would do. My friend said she didn't real know how to answer this. It was hoping one of the nurses here could give a good answer to this.

Thank you

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Specializes in Emergency Department/Radiology.

I am assuming that you are a new nurse? Actually, all of us do this everyday, because nothing ever stays the way it was intended to be or was YOUR intention of how it was to be. Here is how I look at patients: There are the things you absolutely must do, the things you really need to do, and the things you will do but time is not an issue. Nursing is a constant change and flux of things to do, rearranging your priorities should become an unconscious yet constant thing you do while you are working. Keep thinking ahead several steps ahead of what is happening now. This takes practice, but after a while it will become second nature.

Here is what I would answer: I would immediately assess the emergency and if it required prolonged attention I would call my CN and hand my other patients over until I was free to take them back up.

I hope this helps.

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Thank you. I'm actually a returning nurse after 20 yrs and have never this kind of interview.

I am assuming that you are a new nurse? Actually, all of us do this everyday, because nothing ever stays the way it was intended to be or was YOUR intention of how it was to be. Here is how I look at patients: There are the things you absolutely must do, the things you really need to do, and the things you will do but time is not an issue. Nursing is a constant change and flux of things to do, rearranging your priorities should become an unconscious yet constant thing you do while you are working. Keep thinking ahead several steps ahead of what is happening now. This takes practice, but after a while it will become second nature.

Here is what I would answer: I would immediately assess the emergency and if it required prolonged attention I would call my CN and hand my other patients over until I was free to take them back up.

I hope this helps.

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