20Nurse Practitioner School Interview Questions & Answers
1.Why do you want to become a Nurse Practitioner (NP)?
2.What differentiates a Nurse Practitioner from a Physician or a Physician Associate?
3.How do you stay up-to-date on current medical practices and research?
4.How have you prepared yourself for Nurse Practitioner school and the Nurse Practitioner profession?
5.What is your personal nursing philosophy?
6.Where do you see yourself in 10 years as a Nurse Practitioner?
7.What patient population are you most passionate about? Why? What are your thoughts about the health problems affecting that group? How might you go about solving those problems?
8.We have thousands of applicants to our program. What have you done that makes you the best candidate?
9.What specialty are you most interested in?
10.How are you prepared to handle the rigor of Nurse Practitioner school?
11.What attracted you to our program?
12.Describe a difficult clinical experience. How did you handle it?
13.What quality do you have that will help you succeed in this profession?
14.Healthcare is often called a team sport. How do you approach working in a team environment?
15.How would you handle a patient that is non-compliant?
16.You are a newly graduated Nurse Practitioner. What would you do if you observed a colleague be verbally aggressive with a patient?
17.You are an NP working at the hospital. One shift, you are assigned a 90-year-old woman who does not speak English. Test results come back and show that she has advanced-stage cancer. Her family does not want to tell her the news. How do you proceed?
18.A long-time friend comes to you asking for a favor. They are currently uninsured and cannot afford to go to the doctor. They ask you to write a prescription for them, to hold them over until they get health insurance again. What would you do?
19.What things do you like to do in your free time?
20.What song do you cut on when you want to get energized and motivated?
