Tristar Nurse Residency Summer 2018

RN 2018 · Apr 11, 2018

The peer interview is with someone who is currently a nurse, and they ask very similar questions to the leaders. The biggest difference I noticed in the line of questions is the peer interviewer asked questions for you to give a real circumstance that you were involved in, and how did you respond? You will need to pull from any patient care experience you have had. For example, one question was how did you deal with a difficult patient, and how did they respond? With the leaders, they gave me more of the scenario, and asked how I would respond. One question I remember was how would you document a dressing change? Another was what does HIPPA mean to you? I was told about the specialty positons by the hr coordinator, but I could have misunderstood her. Just be prepared to accept something else. I have heard several individuals including myself being offered an adult med-surg position. Just a thought, but you may ask in your interview if you feel comfortable. The only thing I found very distracting about the peer interviews is that they are held with three other candidates interviewing right around you, and they are being asked the same questions.

JCon · Apr 11, 2018

Thank you so much for answering all of my questions, I really appreciate it!! I am coming from California and we do not have any residency programs like this where I am from, so this style of interviewing is very new to me. I really appreciate all of your help!! :)

HB96 · Apr 11, 2018

Is anyone else from a non-compact state and has applied for a single-state TN license? Just trying to make sure I didn't mess anything up!

JCon · Apr 11, 2018

@nursehaliz

I am in the process right now! One thing I found odd was having my director of the RN program, as well as myself, sign my passport photo. They are so tiny! She signed the back of it. How did you go about doing that?

MA019 · Apr 12, 2018

I'm coming down from Boston so dealing with the non-compact state stuff as well. Have those who accepted been working on filling out the preboarding information? I got up to the part where we need to put our nurse license info and everything but I'm still in school so don't have my license yet so not sure what to do there.

p.s @nursehaliz it's not allowing me message you back, don't think i'm ignoring you! :)

HB96 · Apr 12, 2018

You're all good! I asked the same thing of the lady who sent me my offer email. She said "You can enter your graduation date as your license number (ex: 051218) for now. Once you get your license, you can update your employee file with your real license number."

JCon · Apr 18, 2018

Since they want us to wear our school clinical uniforms, do we wear our school badge as well?

MA019 · Apr 18, 2018

i just wore my scrubs, no badge. They give you a name tag when you arrive. I did see some people wearing their school badges as well though

JCon · Apr 30, 2018

I accepted a position on the cardiac med surg floor, 8 Tower! Anyone else on that floor??

greenbean95 · May 3, 2018

For those of you who have accepted positions, when is your start date? Mine is June 18 but I'm nervous because I don't think I'll have my license by then. TN says that it takes 4-6 weeks to process your application but you can't apply until after you graduate and I haven't graduated yet. Anyone else in the same situation?

MA019 · May 3, 2018

For those of you who have accepted positions, when is your start date? Mine is June 18 but I'm nervous because I don't think I'll have my license by then. TN says that it takes 4-6 weeks to process your application but you can't apply until after you graduate and I haven't graduated yet. Anyone else in the same situation?

I'm in the same boat. I don't finish up with school until June 8th and I'm moving down from Boston so they said there most likely will be a delay getting the paperwork squared away. I don't plan on taking the exam until I move down there so soon after the program starts. I believe we have 75 days from our first day to get our license so we have some time.

greenbean95 · May 3, 2018

I'm in the same boat. I don't finish up with school until June 8th and I'm moving down from Boston so they said there most likely will be a delay getting the paperwork squared away. I don't plan on taking the exam until I move down there so soon after the program starts. I believe we have 75 days from our first day to get our license so we have some time.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one in the same situation! I graduate on May 12, so I have some time but I just want to get everything all squared away and it stinks that it seems like a longer process. I'm hoping that it's more of a 4 week process to get approval than a 6 week one. I'm planning on taking the exam in TN after I move down there as well! I'm so happy that we have those 75 days!