Virginia Mason Medical Center Mock Interview
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During your career, what types of safety initiatives have you been involved in and why were these important to you?
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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.
As part of the Virginia Mason Production System, the organization continually seeks measurable improvements in safety, quality, service, staff satisfaction and cost. For this question, your interviewer will be looking hear about your thoughts and experiences working with both patient and employee safety measures. If you have direct experience working as part of a safety committee or writing safety policies, talk about them with your interviewer. If you don't have direct experience working on safety policy, you've surely been a part of following safety measures so expand on those and their importance. No matter how you answer, be sure that your interviewer has the clear sense that you serious about safety.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"As a Clinical Dietitian, I have to remain focused on both the safety measures and policies in place for our dietary staff as well as the patient safety measures that are in place on patient care floors. I currently act as our department's liaison on the local safety committee that meets formally on a monthly basis as well as attending the weekly huddles. When on the patient floors, even though I may only be in a patient's room for mere minutes, I still follow all safety procedures by thoroughly washing and garbing, if necessary. These measures keep myself, the patients and my colleagues as safe as can be when it comes to infection prevention and I'm always willing to take the extra time to do this."
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