Eastern Health Mock Interview
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Question 12 of 34
As part of Eastern Health's mission, we are constantly seeking to learn in our jobs. What have you personally learned from a particular patient or the collective whole of the patients you have cared for?
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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
A career in the healthcare field requires personal growth and education throughout your career because of changing laws, changing technology and new innovations in regards to best practices. You've likely attended continuing medical education, seminars and hands-on training to become better in your job. But for this question, your interviewer will be looking at a different approach to learning in asking what you have learned from your patients throughout your career. While your patients may not have taught you technical skills required on the job, they should have taught you more personal things that you can relate to your patient care as you move into the future. This question allows you to demonstrate learning in a different manner and more from the internal and personal side so think of some ways that you have personally grown in your work due to the patients that you've worked with.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"As I look back on my fairly young nursing career, having been out of college only six years, I'd say my patients have taught me just as much as any training and CME events that I've attended. The biggest thing they've taught me is how to be both respectful and humble in my work. Coming out of my schooling, I had an unprovoked confidence in me that I was going to be the best nurse in the world out of the gates. In my first job out of school in a busy Emergency Department, I couldn't have been humbled faster because of the high needs patients that I cared for. Realizing quickly that I didn't know it all when it came to great patient care, I learned from the early patients that I cared for that their needs come first and that I would need to be a life-long learner in this field. This humility I faced early in my career set me on a great path for success in the nursing field."
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"Working as a Respiratory Therapist in the home health setting, I had the awesome opportunity to see patient in their home life and work with some hospice patients that were nearing the end of their time. It was in this setting that I learned that true beauty and friendship really came from within one's soul versus the money one had gathered and the personal possessions that they owned and I learned this from a lady that was suffering from chronic COPD. Upon my first visit, it was clear that she was living in near poverty. Her rural home was without electricity or modern plumbing and the clothes that she wore had been handed down from others. But outside of her wealth status, it was easy to see the lives that she touched in her time on earth by the number of visitors that she had in her home in my short time with her. Locals from all over her area would visit her and wish her kind words. Members of the city council and local leaders stopped by to wish her well and thank her for the work that she had volunteered in the community to make it a better place. Seeing that the lady had hardly a dime to her name yet was volunteering her time to make her community better really showed me what was important in life and what was not. After her passing, word spread around the community and region and the sadness felt by all really impacted me."
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