New Grad Interview Questions

emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B · May 17, 2016

"Why should we hire you?" You will (or should) be asked this in virtually every job interview.

vintagemother, BSN, CNA, LVN, RN · May 17, 2016

I was recently asked to talk about a time I made a mistake and how I fixed it.

I was stuck for a moment.

Then I talked about a time I deescalated inappropriately while trying to stop a client from hitting a staff.

I followed up by explaining that usually I deescalate well, but this time I should have said X,Y,Z and instead said A,B,C.

She assured me that sometimes it happens and she understood.

kabooski · May 18, 2016

Tell me about your self? ( I really disliked this one)

Where do see your self in 5 years (say hopefully laying in a beach somewhere, not....... just a joke)

Tell me a time you had a difficult situation in clinicals and how did you handle it

Why do you want to work for us

Why Nursing

I threw cautioned to the wind and just freestyled it on my last interview after a few of those questions. Took the conversation in a different direction/tone to better show case my personality, so the manager can gauge if I was going mesh with her existing team

BeachsideRN, ASN · May 18, 2016

Tell me about your self? ( I really disliked this one)
Where do see your self in 5 years (say hopefully laying in a beach somewhere, not....... just a joke)
Tell me a time you had a difficult situation in clinicals and how did you handle it
Why do you want to work for us
Why Nursing
I threw cautioned to the wind and just freestyled it on my last interview after a few of those questions. Took the conversation in a different direction/tone to better show case my personality, so the manager can gauge if I was going mesh with her existing team

I loathe the "difficult clinical situation" or "biggest impact you've made in patient care" questions. But it's part of the deal when you interview.

Make sure you have at least 2 or 3 detailed stories to tell about clinical experiences. And don't be afraid to gloat a little. You are *that* awesome or they wouldn't have chosen to interview you.

ETA: study the company's mission statement, vision, values and current projects. Use that information to work into your answers. They love that stuff

CanadianRN16 · May 18, 2016

In my last interview, I got a lot of general delegation and supervisory questions like, 'You notice a CNA yelling at a patient, what do you do?'

I've had interviews where I was given a sheet of paper with 5 clinical situations and was told to prioritize them and explain why.

CSTtoRN · May 23, 2016

All of my questions were the behavioral type questions at my interviews (Tell me about a time you had an issue with a coworker...., etc.) If you google (I don't mean that in a rude way) nursing interview questions there are a lot of good examples and I even found examples of good and bad answers. Good luck!