Nursing Leadership Interview

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Specializes in Acute Care, Corrections, Home Health, PC.

Thank you for reading my post :) I am looking to ask some basic interview questions of Nursing or Health Care Leaders. This is for an assignment. The questions are as follows:

  • Could you speak about your background and the role you have today?
  • How would you describe a leader?
  • What are some important qualities or characteristics of leaders?
  • What is your personal philosophy of leadership?
  • What learning experiences have had the most influence on your own personal development as a leader?
  • How do you see leadership evolving in nursing today?
  • What are the most challenging issues in your current position?
  • How would you describe your organizational culture?
  • What are the greatest influences on the culture, and what has the greatest effect on the culture?

Please respond to the thread or private message if needed. Also, please give your leadership role, size and number of followers, and type of organization.

Thank you!!

Jessica

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

How can you verify on an anonymous message board that a respondent typing out the answers to your homework questions is really who they post they are? There are imposters on these public anonymous forums. Was your assignment to find a leader to interview or to post your assignment to a message board hoping for a response ? Just curious. We see posts like this a lot.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Corrections, Home Health, PC.

It is to interview a nurse leader. I do like to take things up a notch and I thought interviewing several can give bigger results. I understand you see these types of posts often, as do I. Please ignore if it does not appeal to you, or if you do not meet the criteria.

I don't think people, especially, those in healthcare would go out of their way to give fraudulent information. Also, I'm not a bot and can discern BS from truth.

:)

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
It is to interview a nurse leader. I do like to take things up a notch and I thought interviewing several can give bigger results. I understand you see these types of posts often, as do I. Please ignore if it does not appeal to you, or if you do not meet the criteria.

I don't think people, especially, those in healthcare would go out of their way to give fraudulent information. Also, I'm not a bot and can discern BS from truth.

:)

You would be shocked at the imposters that troll and post on this forum then. It's not the healthcare professional giving fraudulent information it's the bored guy at home that reads just enough Google & medscape to sound believable at first...

Since this is an anonymous forum (and most are not willing to post their own photo, name or location on this forum) how are you going to cite your source for your assignment? This is pure curiosity. Posting on an anonymous forum for others to type responses was not acceptable when I was in school. All interviews had to be in person or by phone with a verifiable source. And my instructors did verify with the source thanks to a few, shall we say "creative writers" that googled for names but did neither a phone or in person interview. I know education evolves. Most posting interview requests in recent years on this forum respond they are too busy/tired/procrastinated too long to do a proper interview. (Not saying that's you but the "you type the answers because I'm too cozy to go out and do my own work myself" responses are rather frustrating. )

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Specializes in Acute Care, Corrections, Home Health, PC.

I can understand that point of view. I have neither procrastinated, nor neglected to interview live people. I am just curious as to the different types of leadership that is out there. I have worked under several management styles and believe that maybe, two were truly leaders. I did re-read the assignment to ensure that posting or inquiring on a large forum was not excluded, and it isn't.

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

Good luck to you and congrats for being one of the few that verify their assignment. My current roles are a bit too unique to help with your assignment. But others may be more willing to respond after your last clarification.

Very refreshing compared to the "Helllpppp me!!! My interview is due tomorrow at 7AM (post is timed after 11:30pm). I've been soooooo busy with classes, nail appointments, clubbing, (insert unique excuse here) so here's my 50 questions that need answers. If you don't answer your a bully!!" Posts that have been on these boards lately.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

Is this a homework assignment? It appears to be.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

Hi there! Most of us here really discourage students from soliciting interviews online for a few reasons, mainly being the importance of networking in your real life community with other nurses and nurse leaders, and the fact that an interview is meant to be a back and forth conversation, not one person typing up a list of answers to questions. And there really is no way to verify that the anonymous person answering your question is really a nurse leader.

Good luck, and I encourage you to contact some nurse leaders in your community - I bet you can easily find a few who would be willing to let you interview them over a cup of coffee.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Merged all posts same topic.

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