Perioperative Nurse Mock Interview
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Working as a perioperative nurse requires a great deal of attention to detail and often multi-tasking. What do you do to help keep yourself from becoming overwhelmed in these situations?
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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.
In the OR setting, perioperative nurses work closely with patients throughout their care and this includes completing paperwork, prepping for procedures, providing assistance to surgeons in the OR, and monitoring and discharging patients from post-op care. In a busy and hectic environment, your interviewer needs to be confident in your ability to multi-task and ensure no minor detail is overlooked when it comes to overall patient care. This question gives you the chance to talk about your ways of keeping yourself organized in your work and how you keep a clear mind when things get stressful, so take advantage of it by highlighting how you do both in your current position and will continue to do it as their next perioperative nurse.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"For me, staying stress free and focused in my work comes down to the most basic mindset of keeping my mind on my patients at all times, their needs, and their outcomes. This focus allows me to avoid outside distractions and ensure that no situation gets me down or hampers my duties. As you can see from my resume, I've spent the last six years as a focused and dedicated medical-surgical nurse in one of the state's largest hospitals. I've managed patient floors full of patients in all conditions and I'm confident that the multitasking skills I've developed there will help me greatly as a perioperative nurse with your team. I focus on one patient at a time and utilize a simple notebook and checklist to ensure that nothing gets overlooked with their care."
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