Operating Room Nurse

☛ What do you feel is the best educational preparation for this career?

☛ What has been your biggest professional disappointment?

☛ How do you see your job relating to the overall goals?

☛ Tell us about the last time you had to negotiate with someone.

☛ What are your salary requirements.

☛ Have you ever had difficulty working with a manager?

☛ How do you evaluate your ability to handle conflict?

☛ What do you think you can bring to this position?

☛ Describe a recent unpopular decision you made.

☛ What have you done to support diversity in your unit?

Be very thoughtful about your answer.

The most important thing you should do is make sure to relate your answer to your long-term career goals. You may receive very helpful advice from an outsider who, like the interviewers, may tell if you answer properly or not.

☛ When were you most satisfied in your job?

☛ Can you describe a time when your work was criticized?

☛ How well did your college experience prepare you for this job?

☛ Tell me about your strengths.

☛ What assignment was too difficult for you?

The most important tip is that you have get yourself prepared carefully before the behavioral interview. Never use any adjectives for these sort of Operating room nurse interview questions. The interviewers want to know the real you, the potential candidate they may accept in.

☛ What have you been doing since your last job?

☛ What is the difference between a good position and an excellent one?

☛ What is a typical career path in this job function?

☛ What do you consider your most significant accomplishment?

☛ Who has impacted you most in your career and how?

Talk about specific work related experience for the position you're interviewing for.

Emphasize benefits to the company. Your answer should be focused on what you can bring to the role that will be of benefit to the company.

☛ What are you looking for in terms of career development?

☛ A team experience you found disappointing.

☛ Example when you went above and beyond the call of duty.

☛ Give an example of a time you successfully worked on a team.

☛ Tell me about how you worked effectively under pressure.

Recently a nurse that covers half of the night shifts in the operating room resigned. Without discussion, our managers announced at morning telling us to fill the call and working hours. I understand how important it is to have the OR covered so as a team we all covered the shifts and made sacrifices, but as a system that runs on a Shared Government as a team we would have appreciated a discussion about how the call was going to be taken.

When you spend time with people, you tend to get emotionally attached to them, which is fine till you part. You can answer something like, “during my training and also in my previous job I have learnt how to detach myself from my patients.”

It is important to know that practice nurses are often the people being led by someone else, working within a team framework. The requirement of a practice nurse to be a strong team leader is not generally the case. Senior personnel usually instruct practice nurses as to their duties. Practice nurses follow this instruction as part of the team framework and help senior personnel where appropriate.

Do not badmouth your previous employer. Instead, say something like, “I have learnt a lot from my previous job and now looking for a more challenging job that will enable me to use my knowledge and experience to help patients.”

I would calmly but promptly make the anesthesiologist aware of the problem and provide immediate assistance to do the needful.

Try to include improvement activities that relate to the job. A wide variety of activities can be mentioned as positive self-improvement. Have some good ones handy to mention.

No matter which field you have chosen to enter as a nurse your goal in every interview is to answer questions very specifically to the job you are applying for at the time. In this question be very specific about your overall choice to the future employer. Answer pointers such as:

· What influenced your choice?

· How did you explore your options?

· Have you tried other job positions?

Highlight in your answer your strengths and how they are best utilized in this specific area in which you are currently applying.

Right before an operation, an OR nurse has to remain at the patient’s bedsides to comfort him or her. Positioning patients so that they can be operated on properly, providing support in administering anesthesia and monitoring patients throughout the surgical procedure, are all part of a nurse’s work in the operating room.

Im well educated, Im willing to learn to the point that I want to know everything in the scope of nursing. Im a aggresive in a way. Im open to any corrections. Im a fast learner, good student and a good worker. Im energetic. Doing task that i need to do. I ussually ask question if im not sure.

Conducive environment, team working, respect for others, friendly staff, opportunity for career development and educational staff development.

Conflict resolution, problem solving, communication and coping under pressure are transferable skills desired by many employers.

Answering this question right can help you demonstrate all of these traits.

• Use real-life examples from your previous roles that you are comfortable explaining

• Choose an example that demonstrates the role you played in resolving the situation clearly

• Remain professional at all times – you need to demonstrate that you can keep a cool head and know how to communicate with people

Whether the area of specialization is ER, Occupational Health, Community Health, ICU or any other, the key to answering interview questions about your nursing career choice is to be very specific about why you chose it. What influenced you in your choice? How did you explore your options? Highlight how your strengths are best utilized in this area and how it suits your personal competencies.

This is a “homework” question, too, but it also gives some clues as to the perspective the person brings to the table. The best preparation you can do is to read the job description and repeat it to yourself in your own words so that you can do this smoothly at the interview.