☛ 1. Tell me about your experience in management. Did you ever lead a team? How many people have you supervised?

☛ 2. What is the greatest challenge you have faced on the job? How did you overcome it?

☛ 3. Describe the steps you took to increase employee retention at your previous job. What were the outcomes? (If the candidate has experience as a nurse manager).

☛ 4. Tell me about a negative situation at a past job. What did you do to turn it into a positive one? Were you recognized for it?

☛ 5. What did you do to calm an angry or upset patient in the past? Tell me about the situation.

☛ 6. Was there ever a time you had to convince someone to do something they didn’t want to do? What was it? What was that individual’s reaction afterward?

☛ 7. Describe a time you and a doctor needed to collaborate. Was there conflict? What did you do to resolve the issue?

☛ 8. Have you ever had to fire anyone? What was your approach?

☛ 9. What were the characteristics of your ideal patient as a nurse? How did you handle patients who did not fit those criteria?

☛ 10. Have you ever attended a national conference? Tell me about what you learned and how you contributed.

☛ 11. Tell me about a time that you were a leader. What did you do to earn that position, and what did you do to keep it?

☛ 12. Give me some examples of your problem-solving skills.

☛ 13. Was there ever a time you clashed with your nurse manager when you were a nurse? What would you do differently than that individual?

☛ 14. Describe an emergency situation where you had to think and act quickly. What would you do differently, if anything?

☛ 15. Tell me about a time one of your co-workers was in the wrong. What did you do? Did their actions put a patient in danger?