Urgent - New Grad RN seeking behavior question help STAR

[icurnca]

Hello I need help in fixing this Appreciate your help. Any advise is welcome . IS this easy to read and understantable. Is this the right way to write especially for 'Action' part. Let me know what you guys think [TABLE=width: 739]

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[TD]Interpersonal Skills

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[TD]Describe a situation in which you were able to effectively "read" another person and guide your actions by your understanding of their needs and values.

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[TD]Situation/Target

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[TD]An Appendicitis patient in ER was restless and screaming to pull IV lines off.

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[TD]Action

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[TD]Tried to calm down the patient and explained the risk and complications but no positive result. I informed the doctor. I talked with the patient's son who was there and asked him if there was any important medical condition that they didn't inform us. He was hesitant in the beginning. I kept explaining him how it would hurt his father's health and finally he said that his dad was an alcoholic and didn't take it that day. That made the patient nervous and acted that way. When the doctor came I informed him about the situation and we carried out treatment for alcoholic withdrawal, with soft padded restraints.

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[TD]Result

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[TD]Patient calmed down after 20 minutes. He told me that he was too embarrassed to let even his son tell us about his alcohol problem and thanked me for immediately figured it out. We referred him alcoholic anonymous program and he was willing to join the program.

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[TD]Teamwork

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[TD]Give an example of how you worked effectively with people to accomplish an important result.

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[TD]S/T

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[TD]Administer polio drops to children (0-5 years) on pulse polio campaign day with a target of 800 children.

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[TD]Our team of 5 was assigned to work at a bus station. We basically explained to parents and got permission to give polio drops to their children. Two of us worked with pedestrians and two wheelers. The rest of us worked with parents in the buses that stopped at the bus station. It was really slow in the first few hours. Then I realized that there are many other buses that cross the bus station without stopping there. I discussed about it with colleagues and I suggested them that we could make a stop sign with polio campaign day symbol and tried to stop those buses. Other members agreed with me. When we tried, many buses stopped for us and the plan worked fine.

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[TD]We administered polio drops to almost 1100 children, 300 more than the target.

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[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

You're on target BUT (you knew it was coming) . . . Your "A" needs to reflect YOUR actions, not the group or team. Revise the language & take out the 'we' and 'us' - replace with 'I'. If you were working with a team, explain that YOU made sure that other team members did ______.

These questions, like all interviewing stuff - are intended to get a sense of the type of nurse you are. So make sure to tell your story in the first person, focusing on your own actions.

[icurnca]

Thank you so much for your suggestion. I will do that