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Accountability for the direction and actions of the nursing staff in the operating theatre is a key duty for Band 7 nurses. It will be important that your interviewer knows that you will be held accountable at all times and that you will hold your team accountable as well. Don't take the easy way out and say that you've never been part of any error or mistake in your work, because your interviewer will see right through that. In the example you give, you want to ensure that you describe what the situation was, why the error occurred, the action you took to make it right, and what you learned from that situation that you brought forward in your career and will bring to this role.
"A few years ago, I made a documentation error in a patient's e-chart that was thankfully later caught by the nurse who relieved me on the next shift. She called me at home to go over the information I put in the record, and I had put the prescription dosage from another patient on the unit in the record. I immediately reported the error to my charge nurse over the phone, and he okayed my colleague to correct it. After reflecting on the situation that night, I should have charted each patient while seeing them and not waiting to chart them all after I saw multiple patients. It was too easy to misremember information and this is a mistake that I will never make again moving forward. I'm a firm believer in personal accountability because my colleagues and patients depend on it. As your next Band 7 theatre nurse, ensuring team accountability will always be something I stress."

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25 Questions & Answers • NHS Band 7 Theatre Nurse

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