In the OR, maintaining patient confidentiality takes extra diligence from our nursing staff. How will you prioritize this as our next perioperative nurse?

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.