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Example interview questions for Nurses e.g Student Nurses, Overseas nurses, RMNs and Registered Nurses (RGNs)

- Tell me about yourself and how you came to enter the nursing profession?

- What are your key strengths? What do you do best?

- What is the National Patient Safety Agency? What do you know about the European Working Time Directive? What are its effects on the medical profession in the UK?

- Is the expanding role of nurses a benefit or a danger to the medical profession?

- What are your key areas for development? What are you not so good at?

- What is your experience in e.g. removing a chest tube? How many / how regularly have you performed such a task?

- You see a patient verbally abuse another nurse. What is your response?

- What kind of feedback would I obtain from your patients if I asked them?

- For this nursing grade E position we are looking for a candidate who is able to take personal responsibility for their own objectives, setting priorities and scheduling work. Please tell me how you would do this?

- Describe how you would manage a relative in crisis following a sudden death?

- You have heard rumours that one of your colleagues is taking drugs. You also know that some drugs have disappeared from the cabinet. How do you react?

- One of your colleague seems to be suffering from stress. What do you do?

- Let me give you a workplace scenario. One of your Nursing staff repeatedly calls in sick even though you suspect they are not telling the truth. As Nurse Team Manager how would you respond to this person and what would you do to resolve the situation?

- Would you have any concerns if we did a background check on you?

- What would we find if we did a background check?

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