EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT NURSE INTERVIEW QUESTION

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 DK ACADEMY FOR NURSES

EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT NURSE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:

1.      What do you know about this hospital?-you should search website regarding the hospital

2.      Tell me about yourself?

      My name is .I graduate at ……..my experience -------------deliver medication, patient care . excellent nursing services .Thank you for giving a chance for an interview.

3.      -talk about your strengths-  passionate , team spirit, polite, caring, understand feeling of patient , professional

-ability to learn from failures

-hard working

-problem solving skills

-good communication skills

-I m adaptable to any situation, learn ,caring, privilege position (nurse)

4.      If you found you were having difficulties in your clinical area or ward, what would you do?-

-I got more challenging environment in my past experience-collegues, senior nurse, incharge –I will explore to them my problem and they used to help to solve out.

5.      How do you help maintain high standards of nursing care on the ward?

-my experience and training give me good skill

-in service education

-policies, procedure manual of this hospital

-team work

-therapeutic communication

-update of knowledge

-listen to your patient, understand patient problems

-high quality care providing

6.      In your opinion , what are the three most important things to a patient?

-patient rights

-treat with respect

-individual difference(needs)

-knowldege about their condition

7.      Why you  want to work here?-goals of hospital check it out.

8.      Where do you see yourself in 5 years-

9.      If I hire you, what will you bring to our facility-positive attitude to this hospital

10.   How you handle stress-

11.   What do you know about the patient population at our hospital-check website

12.   Why are you leaving your current job?-I want a challenged new environment

13.   How have you handled failure-mention about any exam failure and succed

14.   What did you like and dislike about your previous job-tell about general , not related to hospital team-dramatic people. I like my team (team work)

15.   When caring for a group of patient , how do you prioritize your work load?

-triage, prioritize work load

-implementation

-delegate work responsibility to juniors if required

-documentation

16.   Infection control is a high priority . how do you reduce the risk of infection?

-handwashing

-isolation technique

-restrict visitors

-BMW

-screen for MRSA

-Aseptic technique

-body hygiene

17.   If patient complaints chest pain your ward. What you do?

-talk and assess (ABCDE)PATIENT

-OXYGEN

-VITALSIGNS

-ECG

-IV ACCESS, BLOOD SUGAR

-CHECK DRUG CHART , HISTORY

-INFORM DOCTOR AND STAY WITH PATIENT

-BE ASSURE PATIENT

-FOLLOW DOCTORS ORDER

-assess level of pain

18.   Elderly, dementia patient admitted in your ward. What are your responsibilities?

-assess medical notes and nursing notes

-introduce myse3lf, orient to ward, explain procedure

-assess environmental safety

-assess vital signs , lab values for reason for disorientation

-discuss with family

19.   You make a medication error? What you will do?

-As per the protocol I will follow

-vital signs

-effect of medication error-simple or serious

-inform doctor, senior nurse

-document in nurses note

-incident report

-OVR

-monitoring patient often.

-to be honest for reporting error

20.   If patient relative complaints about care? What about your response

-make me safe

-trying to find situation

-apologize

-investigate

-communicate

-ask help from senior nurse

-complaints section of your hospital they can attend

21.   Do you have any questions for me- shift, orientation, job responsibility, my department

Clinical scenario interview :

Assessment:

ABCDE –assessment(IRWAY, BREATHING, CIRCULATION, Disability (glasgow coma scale), EXPOSURE(everything else))

·        Chest pain

Scenario-1:

      Patient in ED with temperature 39 degree celscious, blood pressure 90/50, heart rate 135bpm-what is the nursing management?

Answer:

ABCD ssessment

TRAUMA ASSESSMENT: ABCDEFGHI

A-     Alertness/airway

B-     breathing

C-      Circulation

D-     disability

E-      expose and examine for more bleeding/stab wound/laceration, environment-warm

F-      vital aspects with family

G-     get resuscitation equipment ready

H-     head to toe assessment

I-       inspect the back by physician

EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT TRIAGE

ESI-EMERGENCY SEVERITY INDEX

-5 LEVEL SYSTEM OF TRIAGE

      1- Resuscitation –patient should be seen by provider with in “0” minutes-cardiac arrest/resp arrest/rds/bradycardia/tachycardia severe/trauma pt /chest pain/flaccid baby/anaphylactic reaction

      2. Emergency – within 10 minutes-active chest pain/ a needle stick in health care worker/signs of stroke/r/o ectopic pregnancy/ patient on chemo with fever/ suicidal or homicidal patient/ pain above 7/10.

      3. Urgent-30 minutes-2 or more resources

      4. Less urgent -60 minutes -1 resources

      Non urgent-120 minutes –no resources