Perioperative Nurse Mock Interview
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Question 6 of 25
Are you familiar with the process of preparing and maintaining a sterile environment in the surgical setting?
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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Perioperative nurses are relied upon to maintain a sterile environment in the operating room to ensure that every patient remains as free from infection as possible. The main reason this question gets asked is for your interviewer to ensure that you understand the importance of the seemingly menial tasks you will be performing in sterilizing surgical tools and equipment prior to and following each operation. Now is the time for you to talk about all of the training and experience you have in sterilization processes, so take advantage of it. Make sure to also talk about specific work duties you've held in the past that seriously valued sanitation and sterilization.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"Over the course of my nursing career to this point in the emergency setting, I'm very familiar with the processes of using stem and flash sterilization on equipment like forceps after each patient use. I've hand-delivered equipment to our SPD department and envision that the perioperative nurses on your team work closely with the SPD team. In the operating room setting, there is a much greater need for immediate sterilization of surgical rooms following procedures and these are duties I will always take seriously. Whether it's picking up a mop or using spray to clean up, I'll never be hesitant to do what is right in the name of patient and colleague safety in this role."
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