Nursing Mock Interview

Practice 50 Nursing interview questions covering clinical scenarios, patient care priorities, and ethical decision-making.

Question 7 of 50

Tell me about your education.

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Elisabeth Walter

Elisabeth Walter is an experienced Recruiting Consultant and Enrollment Advisor.

Your path to becoming a nurse has included a great deal of education and certification. Your resume will obviously show the school(s) that you attended, what level your degree was and what dates you attended. Now is your chance to expand upon what is on your resume by talking about your experiences through nursing school, your clinical rotations or your master's program that led you to this point in your career and how specific pieces of your education led you to this job you are interviewing for.

Elisabeth Walter

Elisabeth Walter is an experienced Recruiting Consultant and Enrollment Advisor.

"As you can see, I obtained my bachelor's degree in nursing back in 1991. Since then, I have attended many continuing education courses that have helped me grow significantly as a nurse. Last year, knowing that I wanted to eventually become a nurse in a substance abuse treatment facility, I attended a conference on the opioid epidemic that is sweeping the country right now. In the conference, I learned so much about spotting the signs of addiction, how it is effectively treated and how families are impacted negatively."

Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

"As a new nursing graduate, you can see that I attended Southeast Technical College for my associate's degree in nursing. After passing my state licensure exam, I am very eager to begin my nursing career with the great education that I received from SETC. During my semester of clinical rotations, I gained great knowledge of the nursing profession and obtain many skills while working in urgent care, dialysis, emergency and critical care settings. Down the road, I want to pursue both my bachelor's and master's degrees to pursue a leadership position later on in my career."

Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

"As a nurse who has worked most of her career with an associate's degree in nursing from back in 1988, I recently graduated from my bachelor's degree program that I worked hard for on top of holding my full-time job. Going back to school as a non-traditional student in nursing really refreshed my mind as an experienced nurse to learn about new treatments and techniques. In looking to make the move from a career med/surg nurse to an emergency nurse, my final year elective class on treating trauma patients will benefit me well on my new nursing career path."

Kelly Burlison

Kelly Burlison is an experienced healthcare and quality measurement professional with experience interviewing in the healthcare field focusing on IT.

"As a newly licensed nurse, I recently graduated from a post-baccalaureate nursing program that is specifically for career changers who have bachelors degrees in non-nursing fields. My bachelor's degree, which I earned in 2004, is in business, and after working as a project manager in the corporate IT world since graduating, I decided to go back to school for nursing. The post-baccalaureate program was great for me because it helped me become an RN without me having to take basic undergraduate courses that I had already taken while pursuing my business degree. However, I was required to take all the practical science and nursing courses."

Tabitha Cumpian

Tabitha Cumpian is an RN Lead with experience in multiple clinic specialties and has functioned as a program manager.

"I obtained my bachelor's degree 15 years ago. I was eager to begin my nursing career and learn as much as I possibly could. Through my years of working bedside, I found that I really had a passion for teaching patients about their health conditions and helping them prepare for returning home. It was this passion that led me back to school to complete my master's degree in nursing with an emphasis on education. Now my goal is to focus on patient education and helping patients to understand their conditions fully and feel confident in providing self-care."

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50Nursing Interview Questions & Answers

Discovery

1.What motivates you to provide top-of-the-line nursing care?

Discovery

2.How do you stay current on the latest health research?

Situational

3.Tell me about a time when you committed a medical error in your nursing career. How did you handle it?

Behavioral

4.How have you responded when your supervisor asked you to work an additional shift to fill vacancies?

Competency

5.How do you prioritize when multiple patients and procedures demand your attention at once?

Behavioral

6.Describe your typical relationship with physicians you work with.

Education

7.Tell me about your education.

Situational

8.Tell me about a time in which you had to handle an irate physician, co-worker, or patient. How did you handle it and what were the results?

Competency

9.Are you specialized in a particular area of nursing, i.e. neo-natal, pediatric, geriatric, or women's health?

Situational

10.Describe a recent issue you had with a doctor or co-worker's decision. How did you handle it?

Competency

11.How do you make seamless transitions on shift changes?

Competency

12.Tell me about a time when you had to assist with an administrative project or task. What did the project/task entail and which software programs did you while completing the tasks?

Competency

13.How do you approach providing patient discharge instructions or patient education?

Competency

14.What precautions do you take with a patient in poor health?

Situational

15.Tell me about the greatest challenge you have faced in your nursing career? How did you overcome it?

Situational

16.Tell me about a time when you cared for a patient whose values or beliefs were different from your own. How did you handle the situation?

Competency

17.Tell me about your experience and abilities in collecting lab samples, such as blood, tissue, and and other specimens. Elaborate on the entire end-to-end process of collection.

Behavioral

18.What was your least favorite patient? What was the situation.

Competency

19.Tell me about your IV skills. Are you able to start an IV?

Discovery

20.Why are you leaving your current position?

Competency

21.How many patients is a full workload for you?

Situational

22.Tell me about a time you had to communicate bad news to a patient. How did you effectively communicate that news and what was the outcome?

Situational

23.Tell me about the most stressful situation you've had to deal with in the workplace.

Discovery

24.What is your work availability? Are you able to work nights? Weekends?

Competency

25.Talk about a time you had to communicate a complicated medical issue to a patient or their family. How did you go about relaying the message?

Competency

26.Tell me about an experience when you had to use ACLS, BLS, or PALS protocols in your nursing practice.

Situational

27.Talk about a time that you had to deal with a significant change in your work procedures or in your workplace. How did you handle that change?

Behavioral

28.We are interviewing several candidates for this position. Why should we hire you?

Discovery

29.Do you have any questions about the specific requirements or responsibilities of the job?

Situational

30.Tell me about a time that you had to deal with an unexpected emergency on the job. How did you handle that situation?

Competency

31.Are you able to handle the physical requirement of the job?

Situational

32.Tell me about a time when you have recognized that a patient is in a difficult or dangerous situation. How did you respond and what was the outcome?

Competency

33.Tell me about your experience supervising or mentoring other nurses.

Competency

34.How do you approach the documentation of patient records? Do you have specific strategies that you use?

Situational

35.Have you ever been disciplined or asked to resign from a nursing position?

Discovery

36.Can you tell us about what attracted you to a nursing position with our facility?

Discovery

37.What did you like the best about your last position as a nurse?

Discovery

38.Can you describe a career nursing role model and why?

Discovery

39.What professional organizations do you belong to and which ones would you like to join in the future?

Discovery

40.Do you carry professional liability insurance? Why or why not?

Discovery

41.Which nursing publications do you subscribe to and which one is your favorite?

Competency

42.How much supervision do you want or need in your role as a new nurse in a new position?

Discovery

43.What are your professional nursing goals?

Discovery

44.What are your goals in reference to furthering your education?

Discovery

45.Do you have plans to pursue certification in your chosen field?

Discovery

46.Do you have nursing management or leadership goals?

Competency

47.How much orientation time do you feel is reasonable?

Behavioral

48.How will you promote a culture of teamwork and collaboration?

Discovery

49.Tell me a bit about yourself.

Discovery

Nursing Mock Interview

Tell me about your education.

50Nursing Interview Questions & Answers

1.What motivates you to provide top-of-the-line nursing care?

2.How do you stay current on the latest health research?

3.Tell me about a time when you committed a medical error in your nursing career. How did you handle it?

4.How have you responded when your supervisor asked you to work an additional shift to fill vacancies?

5.How do you prioritize when multiple patients and procedures demand your attention at once?

6.Describe your typical relationship with physicians you work with.

7.Tell me about your education.

8.Tell me about a time in which you had to handle an irate physician, co-worker, or patient. How did you handle it and what were the results?

9.Are you specialized in a particular area of nursing, i.e. neo-natal, pediatric, geriatric, or women's health?

10.Describe a recent issue you had with a doctor or co-worker's decision. How did you handle it?

11.How do you make seamless transitions on shift changes?

12.Tell me about a time when you had to assist with an administrative project or task. What did the project/task entail and which software programs did you while completing the tasks?

13.How do you approach providing patient discharge instructions or patient education?

14.What precautions do you take with a patient in poor health?

15.Tell me about the greatest challenge you have faced in your nursing career? How did you overcome it?

16.Tell me about a time when you cared for a patient whose values or beliefs were different from your own. How did you handle the situation?

17.Tell me about your experience and abilities in collecting lab samples, such as blood, tissue, and and other specimens. Elaborate on the entire end-to-end process of collection.

18.What was your least favorite patient? What was the situation.

19.Tell me about your IV skills. Are you able to start an IV?

20.Why are you leaving your current position?

21.How many patients is a full workload for you?

22.Tell me about a time you had to communicate bad news to a patient. How did you effectively communicate that news and what was the outcome?

23.Tell me about the most stressful situation you've had to deal with in the workplace.

24.What is your work availability? Are you able to work nights? Weekends?

25.Talk about a time you had to communicate a complicated medical issue to a patient or their family. How did you go about relaying the message?

26.Tell me about an experience when you had to use ACLS, BLS, or PALS protocols in your nursing practice.

27.Talk about a time that you had to deal with a significant change in your work procedures or in your workplace. How did you handle that change?

28.We are interviewing several candidates for this position. Why should we hire you?

29.Do you have any questions about the specific requirements or responsibilities of the job?

30.Tell me about a time that you had to deal with an unexpected emergency on the job. How did you handle that situation?

31.Are you able to handle the physical requirement of the job?

32.Tell me about a time when you have recognized that a patient is in a difficult or dangerous situation. How did you respond and what was the outcome?

33.Tell me about your experience supervising or mentoring other nurses.

34.How do you approach the documentation of patient records? Do you have specific strategies that you use?

35.Have you ever been disciplined or asked to resign from a nursing position?

36.Can you tell us about what attracted you to a nursing position with our facility?

37.What did you like the best about your last position as a nurse?

38.Can you describe a career nursing role model and why?

39.What professional organizations do you belong to and which ones would you like to join in the future?

40.Do you carry professional liability insurance? Why or why not?

41.Which nursing publications do you subscribe to and which one is your favorite?

42.How much supervision do you want or need in your role as a new nurse in a new position?

43.What are your professional nursing goals?

44.What are your goals in reference to furthering your education?

45.Do you have plans to pursue certification in your chosen field?

46.Do you have nursing management or leadership goals?

47.How much orientation time do you feel is reasonable?

48.How will you promote a culture of teamwork and collaboration?

49.Tell me a bit about yourself.

50.What are your greatest weaknesses?