Staff Nurse Interview Questions

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explain the situation, and how you placed the patient first and used team work possible another nurse /nursing student to get help while you stayed with the patient

I was very direct in my 5 year plan: Grad school, and full time position in a busy ED. Tell us about YOU. Not my skill set, not my education.... Why Community? At the time, they were the only system not engaging in mass layoffs due to the failure of our state to expand Medicaid. To their credit, they have one of the most well organized health care coverage advocacy sites in the state, and they had it early. This appealed to me but they seemed to be unaware of any of the machinations going on and affecting practice in our state. Very strange for people in this level of management to be so out of the loop.

difficult in the context of the length of time that was expected. Being a new nurse with less than 2 years experience I am very ambitious and wanted to be able to move about in my career as doors opened. I was willing to give a year but it was expected to give 2 years to the unit and a total of 3 to the hospital.

Normal answers

When one of my patient was involves in an urgent situation, I needed someone to help with my other patients, but I didn't always get the support or back up. By multitasking and working quickly I was able to care for all my patients even in those difficult situations.

When I worked at a barbecue restaurant, I used to grab all the sauce bottles to fill them at the sink and clean them together to save time.