New nurse with panel interview for PACU

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Specializes in ICU.

I am beyond thrilled that I received a call for an interview with a PACU department. I am still pretty new to nursing. I've only been working for 5 months in LTC since obtaining my license. In school, my dream specialities were ICU and PACU but I understood the realities of the current economy so I took a SNF job. At first, I was flying in the clouds over the thought of finally getting an interview with a hospital (yes, it's my very first one with a hospital), but then I received the email and found out it's a panel interview. I'm completely terrified!

I've read that PACU is the place where former ICU nurses go so obviously most PACU nurses have loads of nursing experience already. How can a rookie nurse like me stand out among (potential) veteran nurses in a panel interview? I've been researching sedation scales and threads on AN. Anything specific I should study?

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