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Dianne Barnard is a Registered Nurse and former nursing instructor. She is also board certified in Psychiatric Nursing and Holistic Nursing Critical Care.
At the very heart of your pursuit of advanced Nurse Fellowship training, you are looking to grow and build new skills to help further your career in the field. Your interviewers know that you will join their program and face new and unfamiliar situations. This question allows them the chance to see how you will react when faced when new tasks and responsibilities during your time training with them.

Dianne Barnard is a Registered Nurse and former nursing instructor. She is also board certified in Psychiatric Nursing and Holistic Nursing Critical Care.
"I really want to jump in and be a contributing member of the team during Nurse Fellowship training, but I'll always stop and do a check-in before enthusiastically saying I'll do something I'm not sure about. When I started my current position in the PACU, there were many new tasks and procedures I had to learn. Wanting to be oriented and running as quickly as possible, I asked a ton of questions, shadowed the best nurse, and spent extra time learning our work procedures so I could be independent after just four weeks."

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
This is not the time to say that you would jump in with both feet. The interviewers are not looking for someone who just jumps when someone says jump, but someone willing to jump with confidence and competence. Your job is to provide an answer that illustrates this difference. Some key things to highlight could be your current set of nursing skills and asking for help when you feel you need it.

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