Perioperative Nurse Mock Interview
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Question 7 of 25
In the OR, maintaining patient confidentiality takes extra diligence from our nursing staff. How will you prioritize this as our next perioperative nurse?
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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.
As you've been trained in any nursing job you've held in the past and throughout your nursing education, patient confidentiality is of utmost importance and guided by HIPAA laws in any institution and department. Within the walls of the operating room, patient confidentiality takes on a different meaning than you're likely used to in moving patients from pre-op care to post-op care. The fact that patient briefings can happen in a busy place also requires an added element of being thorough in how you discuss patient statuses. Make sure your interviewer walks away knowing that you will always be focused on locking down computer screens when you walk away from charting in the EMR and will have conversations that only care providers need to know tactfully and mindfully.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"As I've done throughout my entire career, I will always take patient confidentiality seriously as a perioperative nurse here. When preparing patients for their procedures, my charting will occur quickly and I won't let anyone else access a chart by closing out the file each time I'm done and locking down the PC I'm on when I'm finished. I'll also always have conversations in private and not use patient names whenever possible. Over the course of my nursing career in primary care and dermatology, my track record of patient confidentiality is excellent and I will continue this as an esteemed member of this amazing team."
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