TriStar Nurse Residency Summer 2020

[NICU_Nurse_Casti]

Hello all!

Just wanted to create this little blog to see who else was going to be interviewing at Tristar for their New Grad Nurse Residency program for Summer 2020. I have interviews on Feb. 27th and 28th at Centennial and StoneCrest, respectively. I am pretty excited, but also nervous. I have never participated in a group interview process before.

[BiscuitStripes, BSN, RN]

5 hours ago, ninjanurse01 said:

Hi there! How were did the interviews go? Did they tell you what units were hiring?

I had skyline and centennial today. Skyline there was four of us and it was a group interview. They said they’re mainly hiring med surg and told me all of the ER spots (my top choice) we’re already filled. Centennial was a group of 20 or so of us but you split up and do individual interviews. They didn’t really say what units were open either but did say it was predominantly med surg. Both places are a two year contact but you can switch units after a year and hospitals after two years.

[NICU_Nurse_Casti, BSN, RN]

6 hours ago, EDboundSN said:

I had skyline and centennial today. Skyline there was four of us and it was a group interview. They said they’re mainly hiring med surg and told me all of the ER spots (my top choice) we’re already filled. Centennial was a group of 20 or so of us but you split up and do individual interviews. They didn’t really say what units were open either but did say it was predominantly med surg. Both places are a two year contact but you can switch units after a year and hospitals after two years.

Sorry to hear there were no ER spots! My friend interviewed at Centennial yesterday, too. She said they told her to keep an open mind because they are mainly looking to fill medsurg positions.

How do you feel it went overall? She said it was very fast paced and that they asked questions back-to-back, like rapid fire.

[ninjanurse01, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

10 hours ago, EDboundSN said:

I had skyline and centennial today. Skyline there was four of us and it was a group interview. They said they’re mainly hiring med surg and told me all of the ER spots (my top choice) we’re already filled. Centennial was a group of 20 or so of us but you split up and do individual interviews. They didn’t really say what units were open either but did say it was predominantly med surg. Both places are a two year contact but you can switch units after a year and hospitals after two years.

Really? That really makes me feel like not going to the interviews. I think its rude and unprofessional to make us travel to Nashville and not even tell us what units are open. I'll have to see what I do.

[BiscuitStripes, BSN, RN]

14 hours ago, CastiMcNasti said:

Sorry to hear there were no ER spots! My friend interviewed at Centennial yesterday, too. She said they told her to keep an open mind because they are mainly looking to fill medsurg positions.

How do you feel it went overall? She said it was very fast paced and that they asked questions back-to-back, like rapid fire.

I didn’t think it was that fast paced I felt it was normal paced. I did my leadership interview one on one, some people had a 1 or 2 person panel. I interviewed at another local hospital today and there was 8 people on the panel so that was definitely way more intimidating than the centennial interview.

[BiscuitStripes, BSN, RN]

Does anyone have any insight as to why Centennial, which is a 740 bed hospital, only has 25 ER beds, and Vandy, which has 1,046 beds, has a 90 bed ER? I work in a 500 bed hospital right now and we have 60 beds in our ER. I was just a little confused.

[ninjanurse01, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

5 hours ago, EDboundSN said:

Does anyone have any insight as to why Centennial, which is a 740 bed hospital, only has 25 ER beds, and Vandy, which has 1,046 beds, has a 90 bed ER? I work in a 500 bed hospital right now and we have 60 beds in our ER. I was just a little confused.

That's an interesting topic. I worked in a 172 bed hospital and we had 40 adult ER beds and 10 pets ER beds. Maybe Centennial's volume is mostly surgical admits?

[BiscuitStripes, BSN, RN]

Anyone who interviewed anywhere last week hear back yet? I interviewed at Skyline on Thursday and they said I'd know yes or no by Friday or at the very latest Monday, but I haven't heard anything yet. Also interviewed at Centennial and Summit last week too, still waiting to hear back.

[NICU_Nurse_Casti, BSN, RN]

2 minutes ago, EDboundSN said:

Anyone who interviewed anywhere last week hear back yet? I interviewed at Skyline on Thursday and they said I'd know yes or no by Friday or at the very latest Monday, but I haven't heard anything yet. Also interviewed at Centennial and Summit last week too, still waiting to hear back.

My friend who interviewed with Centennial on Thursday said they told her she should hear from them in 5-7 days.

[NICU_Nurse_Casti, BSN, RN]

How do you feel your interviews went EDboundSN?

[BiscuitStripes, BSN, RN]

7 minutes ago, Future_NICU_Nurse_Casti said:

How do you feel your interviews went EDboundSN?

I'm feeling pretty good about them! I'm pretty confident I'll get offers at all of them, just a matter of which units! Fingers crossed!

[Mjones138]

8 minutes ago, EDboundSN said:

Anyone who interviewed anywhere last week hear back yet? I interviewed at Skyline on Thursday and they said I'd know yes or no by Friday or at the very latest Monday, but I haven't heard anything yet. Also interviewed at Centennial and Summit last week too, still waiting to hear back.

Hey there,

I also interviewed last Thursday and just received an offer today for the IMCU or med/surg neurology. The email was sent out at 12 so I would keep checking your inbox EDboundSN!

[BiscuitStripes, BSN, RN]

Just now, Mjones138 said:

Hey there,

I also interviewed last Thursday and just received an offer today for the IMCU or med/surg neurology. The email was sent out at 12 so I would keep checking your inbox EDboundSN!

Was this for Skyline??