Interview Questions
Preparing well for your job interviews can help you feel much less like you are stepping off a cliff into the unknown!
The following questions were recommended by a nurse recruiter from a local Massachusetts hospital system.
1) Tell me about your most recent patient care assignment. How many patients were you assigned? Discuss the types of patients and the skills you utilized in providing care.
2) Tell me about a new skill you had to learn in the last 3 months. What was the skill? How did you go about learning that skill? How have you utilized that skill?
3) Tell me about the most difficult patient you had to deal with. What was the difficulty? How did you deal with the difficulty? What was the outcome?
4) What things in your nursing education give you a sense of accomplishment?
5) What are your strengths?
6) What type of manager do you like to work for and why?
7) If you could plan your orientation for this position, what would you include?
8) Describe a time when you were faced with a problem or stresses in school that tested your coping skills. What did you do?
9) Describe your most recent group effort.
10) Give me an example of when you had to go above and beyond the call of duty in order to get the job done
Material provided by Maureen Picard, Nursing Recruiter at UMass Memorial Health Care
