Terrible follow up interview thank you note

[ninathechihuahua]

I recently interviewed at a neuro ICU. I've been in med surge for 1.5 years.

I think the interview went well for the most part, the unit director was happy I had experience. I walked from HR to the unit for the interview and when i walked up to her, she asked if I had any paperwork. I handed her my resume. I was worried because of her lack of interest in me when I handed it to her, but after looking at my resume for a minute she was like "omg! I'm so glad you have experience!". The rest of the interview went okay. At the end I didn't have many questions I was so overwhelmed with the tour of the ICU (level 1 trauma MC). but when I was finished with a question she asked "Do you have any other questions?" like 2 or 3 times,What do you think that means? ..I hope she knows i'm interested...I asked for her email so that if i did have questions I could communicate with her.

The thing I'm worried about is my follow up email. I said something along the lines of being thankful for her time and I loved the cutting edge technology "X" medical center has. I ended it with "if the position is filled, would there be any other units you would recommend?". Really bad. I remember in the beginning the recruiter said that if neuro ICU didn't work, there could be other units this director could recommend AND, the unit director even asked me in the beginning "why don't you work cardiac?" (since a lot of my experience is not just M/S, but cardiac, stable CABG's,etc.). So, I thought it would be appropriate to ask.

Also, in my f/u email with the recruiter , I asked the same thing...

Did I screw myself? Its only been since March 1st (interview and emails). I have not heard anything back via email. It's too soon to tell, but I hope they won't take it the wrong way, I did reiterate that I was very interested in the unit I interviewed for.

Thanks guys

[CBlover, BSN, RN]

I don't see anything wrong with what you did myself.

[ninathechihuahua]

2 people I know told me that it was a bad move. It shows I'm not interested...are you sure?

Also, I did get a tour from the Clinical nurse specialist (half the time the unit director was handling her day to day job duties) and I didn't send the CNS a note or anything. the CNS also recommended I speak with the other RN's but I didn't because the interview ended with the unit director, then she walked me to the elevator...So hopefully it doesn't look like I didn't want to meet anyone. The unit director did shake my hand twice in 5 minutes when she walked me to the elevator and seemed happy, lol maybe she liked me. In the beginning I did NOT think she liked me at all...

[CBlover, BSN, RN]

I just recently had an interview myself. They asked me several times if I had questions and I asked all the questions I could think of. After so long you will run out of questions...that's OK !