SCVMC Summer/Fall 2023

Nurses Job Hunt

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Hi everyone, wanted to start a thread for the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC) new grad nurse jobs that were posted in March/April 2023. Has anyone heard back regarding interviews or next steps? 

I got my rank today. What is considered a competitive ranking 

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Awesome! I just got my ranking for the PCU. I got an email and text message about scheduling for the hiring event. My rank was 185 & score of 80%. Not sure what any of that really means tho ?

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The rankings are so confusing! I have an interview set up for PCU too, but I was really hoping for something in the specialty training program ? 

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I didn't get anything for PCU. My rank is 148 from the general email. Don't know if that's good or bad LOL

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I just got an email invite to attend PCU's interview event after receiving my ranking! Does anyone know what the interview questions are like? The email said interviews are about 25 min each which seems really short to me

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I got my ranking too 87% and ranked 54. Tbh I heard ranking doesn't matter? I heard you can get interview even tho you're ranked 180+ haha. I didn't check PCU as my unit choice ahaha but I guess they're the first to interview ppl.. hopefully ICU/ peds will send out emails soon too ? When is PCU interview? Is it June 29?

Here's some info about PCU after stalking different forum ahaha

"The interview is straight forward. In my case, two assistant nurse managers interviewed me. One of the scenario questionsincluded was, what would you do to prevent an older adult patient withdementia from getting off the bedand falling? I let them know that Iwould know by then the hospital policy on fall precautions, I wouldput a bed alarm, non-skid socks, maintain a calm environment, nurse call button close, etc. Because this is for new grads and nurses changingspecialty, they expect that we know the basics about communication,peer rapport, basic safety measures, etc.”

"I met with the manager who asked me 2-3 scenario questions. They called me the following Monday. Interviewquestions were the same questionsyou mainly get asked.. tell me aboutyourself. Why do you wan to workhere. Strengths/weakness. Questions like that. "

"Most of the questions were behavioral scenario and then I got two pretty basic clinical scenario questions. One question I got that caught me a little off guard was "what's amisconception people have about you and what do you do about that", but the rest of the questions were straight forward. I had a brief interview with the manager after that who asked more clinical scenario questions but all were straightforward.” 

Tbh I'm more scared for the clinical scenarios.. like I have forgotten everything ? if anyone have example qs please share with us! 

 

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PedsssRN said:

I got my ranking too 87% and ranked 54. Tbh I heard ranking doesn't matter? I heard you can get interview even tho you're ranked 180+ haha. I didn't check PCU as my unit choice ahaha but I guess they're the first to interview ppl.. hopefully ICU/ peds will send out emails soon too ? When is PCU interview? Is it June 29?

Here's some info about PCU after stalking different forum ahaha

"The interview is straight forward. In my case, two assistant nurse managers interviewed me. One of the scenario questionsincluded was, what would you do to prevent an older adult patient withdementia from getting off the bedand falling? I let them know that Iwould know by then the hospital policy on fall precautions, I wouldput a bed alarm, non-skid socks, maintain a calm environment, nurse call button close, etc. Because this is for new grads and nurses changingspecialty, they expect that we know the basics about communication,peer rapport, basic safety measures, etc.”

"I met with the manager who asked me 2-3 scenario questions. They called me the following Monday. Interviewquestions were the same questionsyou mainly get asked.. tell me aboutyourself. Why do you wan to workhere. Strengths/weakness. Questions like that. "

"Most of the questions were behavioral scenario and then I got two pretty basic clinical scenario questions. One question I got that caught me a little off guard was "what's amisconception people have about you and what do you do about that", but the rest of the questions were straight forward. I had a brief interview with the manager after that who asked more clinical scenario questions but all were straightforward.” 

Tbh I'm more scared for the clinical scenarios.. like I have forgotten everything ? if anyone have example qs please share with us! 

 

OMG thank you for this!! Such a great way to see what to expect, but I'm with you on the clinical scenarios & being scared  LOL I think if we emphasize safety and communication to them then that already is a positive thing because as a New grad we aren't expected to know 100 things, but we are expected to know how to be a safe practicing nurse and communicate issues arising before them becoming worse. I'm definitely going to brush up on clinical scenarios and basics before Interview ?

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Does anyone know how it works if we have more than 1 interview invite? It seems like they are doing all the unit interviews on the same day and time.

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coffeebeans said:

Does anyone know how it works if we have more than 1 interview invite? It seems like they are doing all the unit interviews on the same day and time.

I think so, since it's a job fair and each interview will take about 25 minutes? 
 

Did anyone else get interview invites beside PCU? 

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PedsssRN said:

I think so, since it's a job fair and each interview will take about 25 minutes? 
 

Did anyone else get interview invites beside PCU? 

I only received an invite for PCU.

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I received an invite to interview for the ED just this morning!

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coffeebeans said:

I received an invite to interview for the ED just this morning!

OMG I should've checked more units so sad ? I guess bye bye ED xD 

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