Dialysis Nurse Question:

☛ Where do you see yourself in 3 years?
☛ What do you bring to this position? How do you stand out from the other applicants?
☛ What attracts you to this facility? To this position? What do you hope to get out of the experience?
☛ How would you describe your ideal job? Your ideal work environment?
☛ Why are you leaving your current position?
☛ What did you particularly like about your last position?
☛ What's your most important professional achievement?
☛ Who are your career role models and why?
☛ How do you set priorities in your work?
☛ Do you have any time-management tricks other nurses could benefit from?
☛ What are the most important lessons you've learned in your career?
☛ How much supervision do you want or need?
☛ What professional organizations do you belong to?
☛ How have you participated in the professional organizations you belong to?
☛ What nursing publications do you subscribe to?
☛ Have you attended any national conferences? If so, how did you benefit from the experience?
☛ Have you ever done any volunteer work? If so, what was it like?
☛ How do you keep up with the latest information in your field?
☛ What are your goals in terms of going back to school, becoming certified, taking on management responsibilities?
☛ Can you give an example of a time you were a leader?
☛ Can you give some examples of your problem-solving skills?
☛ What do you think are the most challenging aspects of meeting patients' needs?
☛ How do you handle a request you disagree with?
☛ What happened the last time you put your foot in your mouth?
☛ What actions would you take in your first month on the job?
☛ Can you give some examples of your creativity?
☛ Who is the most difficult person you've ever worked with and why?
☛ What type of management style do you work with best?
☛ Can you describe a time when you had to intervene for a patient, what you did, and why? What was the outcome?
☛ How would you rate yourself in communicating with patients—and with families?
☛ Can you describe a situation in which you dealt with a difficult family member?
☛ How do you motivate patients?
☛ Can you describe a time you went beyond the call of duty?
☛ Can you describe a situation in which you thought that you were right and others were wrong—and what you did about it?
☛ Can you describe a situation in which you were supposed to work with a person you didn't like and how you handled it?
☛ Have you ever been in a situation in which a co-worker put a patient in jeopardy? If so, what did you do about it?
☛ What would you do if you were asked to float to a specialty area you weren't familiar with?
☛ Can you describe a time your work was criticized and how you handled it?
☛ How do you handle delegation issues with unlicensed assistive personnel?
☛ How would your co-workers describe you?
☛ How would you describe your role in a recent code?
☛ How do you handle stress?
☛ Have you ever been fired or asked to resign?
☛ What would a background check on you show?
☛ Would your previous employer recommend you?
☛ What would you do if you were caring for an alert patient who suddenly got acutely confused and disoriented?
☛ What would you do if you found an elderly patient on the floor in his room? How would you document it?
☛ Have you worked with many foreign nurses? If so, what did you do to help them?
☛ How would you handle a situation in which you couldn't read a prescriber's orders?
☛ If you were offered your last job again today, would you take it?
☛ How long has it been since you worked as a nurse?
☛ What have you been doing since you've been out of nursing?
☛ How have you prepared to return to nursing?
☛ Did you take a refresher course? How did it help?
☛ How have you kept up with changes in the profession?
☛ What's your most important achievement as a student?
☛ When do you plan to take your NCLEX? Have you taken a course to prepare for it?
☛ Where did you get your clinical experience? What units?
☛ Did your clinical experience include putting in a urinary drainage catheter or starting an intravenous line access? Inserting or removing a nasogastric tube, or caring for a patient with one?
☛ What was your favorite clinical experience? Least favorite? Why?
☛ What types of charting systems have you used? What do you like about them? What do you dislike?
☛ What do you think is a reasonable orientation time?
☛ Have you worked with an electronic medication administration record? Bar coding?
☛ What new technology have you used in school, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs)?
☛ Are you on-line often? What are your favorite sites for reliable health care information?