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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.
There are ample career opportunities for Registered Nurses to mentor peers or advance into leadership positions where they will supervise their colleagues. Your interviewer asks this question to assess your experience in mentorship or supervision to determine how these skills could be utilized at their organization. To successfully answer this question, talk about any experiences you have in formally supervising others and any experiences you have in mentoring colleagues or students. If you do not have experience supervising or mentoring other nurses, a supervision or mentorship experience in another setting would suffice for your answer.

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"I just recently finished nursing school, so I have not yet had the opportunity to supervise or mentor other nurses in a professional position formally. However, before I returned to school to train as an RN, I worked in another career. I was considered a mature student. For that reason, many of my peers in school looked up to me for advice. Because I believe in helping others, I helped these academic colleagues and mentored them while in school and doing our clinical rotations. While this mentorship experience is not directly connected to a job, I feel like I will be able to use this experience at your organization."
I have been involved with new-hire nurse training and having students or other nurses shadow me. I have assisted with projects involving the education of the nurses and student nurses who do clinical rotations on our floor.

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