Virginia Mason Medical Center Mock Interview
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What are some ways that you would say that you work efficiently and why is this important?
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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 Virginia Mason Medical Center's Virginia Mason Production System, the organization strives to take measures to eliminate waste and inefficiencies in their work processes to allow their employees more direct time with patients to talk, listen and treat them. In your answer to this question, talk about efficiencies that you have developed in your work that allow you more face to face contact time with your patients and talk about why this is important in the job that you perform. Gear your efficiencies towards administrative tasks and other tasks that take you away from direct patient care.
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 nurse in the Home Health setting, being efficient started with my own personal organization to start and end each day to ensure that I was spending enough quality time with patients on action packed days in the field. This organization started with detailed planning for the day and ensuring I had all of the supplies needed each day. This prevented potential unnecessary running for supplies. Organization also included following up on emails and charting, which I blocked away time for at least every other day when making out my visit schedule. While knowing these things were important, dedicating time to these duties was important so I could still have ample time with each patient's home visit."
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