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Brittanie Young is an HR Consultant with over 7 years of experience helping companies improve their employee experience through strategic talent management initiatives.
As a Band 7 Manager, your team will bring their most challenging situations to you as their leader. Your interviewer knows your experience can indicate how you will handle this situation as a manager. They want to hear you discuss the most difficult case you faced as a nurse during your career.

Brittanie Young is an HR Consultant with over 7 years of experience helping companies improve their employee experience through strategic talent management initiatives.
"One of the most difficult cases I've ever had was educating parents and my team on providing proper end-of-life care to a terminally ill child as a pediatric hospice nurse. In nursing, it can be emotionally difficult to separate emotions from providing great care. As your next Band 7 Manager, my experience in these situations would be very beneficial to the Band 7 team I would lead, and I look forward to bringing that experience into action here."

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Tell the interviewer about a challenge you have faced on the job. It could be a challenging staffing decision you had to make because a member of your team did not provide adequate patient care or a situation with a difficult patient in which you had to coach your staff on the proper response. Highlight how your experiences have prepared you well for becoming the ultimate team leader and manager as their next Band 7 Manager.

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