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Graduate Nurse Interview Questionsby Nikki Papastamos - Tuesday, 6 March 2012, 04:59 PM 

  Come up with 6 practice questions related to Top 6 Key Selection criteria.

 

RESPECT

. If a nurse you were working with approached you and told you she was uncomfortable completing a dressing on their patients groin, what

would you say?. Do you believe that respect is important in the workplace and why?

. If a client refuses your care on a basis of gender, race or culture how would you approach the situation?

. What are your views on workplace bullying?

. How would you feel in regards to patients choice of refusing CPR?

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TEAMWORK

. Describe a time when you have been involved in a team

. do you consider yourself a team player and can you describe this in what way?

. The Alfred uses an interdisciplinary approach to care how does a nurses role fit into this model?

. How does team work affect patient care?

. Can you provide a clinical scenario where you had you had to approach someone from a different clinical discipline and in what ways was it

effective/ineffective.

CRITICAL THINKING

. Why is critical thinking important in nursing

. Critical thinking is essential to effective learning what would be your definition?

. How have you used critical thinking in the past

. in relation to critical thinking if a patient presented with severe blood loss, what steps would you take?

. What are the most important steps in critical thinking so your goal is effectively reached

. When is it important to use critical thinking?

TIME MANAGEMENT

. how important do you think it is to have time management skills as a nurse and how would you demonstrate this in the workplace

. in a scenario with 4 patients and 3 were post op, how would you provide appropriate care to all patients?

. If you plan of doing further study, how would you incorporate this into your work and social life?

. Have you ever accounted a situation which you have experienced a time shortage and have uncounted a problem and how did you manage

this?

HONESTY & ACCOUNTABILITY

. Tell me a time when you were accountable for your own mistakes?

. If a nurse was taking shortcuts and not following procedural guidelines what would you do?

. As you're leaving your shift you notice a pill under your patient's bed, what would you do?

. If you accidental double dosed a patient on their medication what would you do?

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ENGAGED IN LEARNING

.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

. Professionally where do you see yourself working in 4 years time?

. If you found a skills deficit knowledge how would you go about fixing it?

. Is there an area of nursing that you would like to specialise in and why?

. How would you go about achieving this?

. Can you tell me what facilities and services that are available thought The Alfred that would enable professional development?

. Do you enjoy learning and why?

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