Psychiatrist

Absolutely. Throughout my career as a psychiatric nurse, I’ve been supportive of nurses who are just entering the field. Even in nursing school, I helped friends study psychiatric nurse interview questions before they met with hiring managers in hopes of getting their first jobs. Peer mentoring helped me get where I am today and I want to reciprocate.

Abnormal movements as in tardive dyskinesia a late onset onet of abnormal involuntary movements. Tardive dyskinesia is conventionally thought a late side effect of first generation antipsychotics, but some abnormal movements were seen in schizophrenia before the introduction of antipsychotics.

An abnormal perception caused by a sensory misinterpretation of and actual stimulus, sometimes precipitated by strong emotion, e.g. fear provoking a person to imagine they have seen an intruder in the shadows.

An abnormal involuntary movement disorder which may manifest as lipsmacking bucco-lingual movements or grimacing, truncal movements or athetoid limb movements.

This question helps you evaluate whether the psychiatrist candidate has the necessary professionalism, empathy and warmth to help patients who can be extremely vulnerable. You'll learn what types of patients and conditions this candidate may be best at treating, and you'll be able to ascertain whether the applicant would be able to retain patients and attract new ones to your practice. You may also learn how quickly the candidate psychiatrist builds patient trust. What to look for in an answer:

Ability to be empathetic and professional

Ability to treat conditions commonly seen at your practice

Potential to attract new patients

Tests the candidate's interpersonal skills and conflict management.

As important as the role of psychiatrists. All three should work as a tightly knit team and provide as best as possible service to the mentally ill patients.

Yes I have. Food is not the point here, the drug is. As psychiatrists, we should be wary their advertisement sale pitch but we also need to find out the truth about the drug-what the drug can really do for our patients.

About a year ago, on the night of my fifth wedding anniversary, I had to cover a shift for a coworker who suddenly got ill while tending to patients. Pitching in meant I had to tell my spouse we would need to shift our dinner plans to the next night when I was off. Although this initially caused disappointment, there was also a mutual understanding that if I did not cover that shift, the entire department would have struggled. Thanks to my decision, the department was able to continue delivering top-quality patient care, which was ultimately recognized by the nursing supervisor.

Also known as wahnstimmung, a feeling that something unusual is about to happen of special significance for that person.

A form of depressive illness only occurring during winter months, associated with overeating and sleepiness. Responsive to antidepressants and phototherapy. Little researched and scientifically controversial.

Many patients have several mental health conditions at one time, and this question lets you evaluate whether the candidate has the necessary training and experience to treat patients with these kinds of complex needs. You'll learn how the psychiatrist makes choices about which conditions/symptoms to prioritize, and you'll also learn how he or she might adapt or combine different counseling techniques to treat multiple conditions. What to look for in an answer:

Appropriate experience with complex mental health conditions/needs

Ability to prioritize the patient's most urgent needs

Ability to combine different treatments

More of consultant, educator and administrative role. In the overall health care system, Psychiatrists must recognize that in the future a substantial proportion of clinical care for psychiatric patients will be provided by primary care physicians and other mental health professionals.

I am able to multitask when needed, and I am also able to set boundaries when I feel like my patients’ care might be compromised by me taking on too many tasks. It’s important to work together in a health care facility, but it’s also necessary to remember that it’s the patients’ needs that must be served above all else.

An chronic organic mental illness which produces a global deterioration in cognitive abilities and which usually runs a deteriorating course.

An abnormal sensory experience that arises in the absence of a direct external stimulus, and which has the qualities of a normal percept and is experienced as real and usually in external space. Hallucinations may occur in any sensory modality.

In these phenomena the individual feels that some aspect of themselves is under the external control of another or others. These may therefore include 'made acts and impulses' where the individual feels they are being made to do something by another, 'made movements' where their arms or legs feel as if they are moving under another's control, 'made emotions' where they are experiencing someone else's emotions, and 'made thoughts' which are categorised elsewhere as thought insertion and withdrawal.

Tests whether the candidate keeps up to date with the latest research in psychiatry and mental health.