Kaiser Permanente Registered Nurse Interview Questions
Go Back1. How have you responded when your supervisor asked you to work an additional shift to fill vacancies?
2. Describe your typical relationship with physicians you work with.
3. How do you care for a patient who is unable to communicate?
4. What are your best practices for treating a VIP patient?
5. How can you help Kaiser Permanente deliver excellent patient care?
6. What best practices do you use for patients in poor health?
7. Tell me about your experience in collecting lab samples, such as blood, tissue, and other specimens.
8. What are your best practices in caring for patients with dementia?
9. At Kaiser Permanente, we take patient privacy seriously. What is your experience level and understanding of HIPAA?
10. How many patients is a full workload for you?
11. How do you make seamless transitions on shift changes?
12. How do you prioritize when multiple patients and procedures demand your attention at once?
13. Why are you leaving your current position or company?
14. Can you tell me about a nurse that you look up to?
15. What are your salary requirements?
16. Are you specialized in a particular area of nursing, i.e. neonatal, pediatric, geriatric, or women's health?
17. At Kaiser Permanente, we promote work-life balance. In what ways do you maintain a healthy balance?
18. Tell me about your education.
19. Why do you want to work for Kaiser Permanente?
20. How do you stay current on the latest health research?
21. What motivates you to provide top-of-the-line nursing care?
22. What do you feel is the toughest part about being a nurse?
23. What made you want to become a nurse?
24. What is your 5-year plan?
25. Describe a difficult challenge you recently faced, how you handled it and what was the outcome?
26. Describe a time you had to teach a patient something they weren't receptive of learning.
27. How would you respond if you were asked to perform a task that you were not trained to do?
28. Tell me about a time you had to communicate bad news to a patient. How did you effectively communicate that news and what was the outcome?
29. Tell me about a time when you cared for a patient whose values or beliefs were different from your own. How did you handle the situation?
30. Describe a recent issue you had with a doctor or co-worker's decision. How did you handle it?
31. Tell me about a time in which you had to handle an irate physician, co-worker, or patient. How did you handle it and what were the results?
32. Tell me about a time when you committed a medical error in your nursing career. How did you handle it?
33. Tell me about a time a fellow nurse was not helping with the workload and how you managed that.
34. Tell me about a time you witnessed a colleague not following safety precautions and how you handled that.
35. How would you manage a high patient load with limited support?