Employers look for operating room nurses who can focus in a stressful work environment and have the medical knowledge to assess patient needs. Especially desirable are candidates with an RN certification and critical care experience. Expect to answer questions that test your practical skills and address how you approach hypothetical emergency situations. Candidates should also demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Why do you want to work in the OR? How do you handle stressful situations? Positive patient experience, negative patient experience, how do you handle each? How do you handle personal and work conflicts? The general nursing interview questions, with a few OR specific.
how do you describe yourself in an emergency situation?
Please tell us the steps for a laporoscopic cholecystectomy from the patient is preped and draped.
About myself and my goals.
Whether I could scrub and circulate
How do you address conflict in the operating room?
Why the OR?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Again, I was asked (3x) about the level of certainty that all of my credentials were in order, to ensure they could get me started by the date I requested (I quit Banner, as a OR, Nurse Sup, to work in the same role, encompassing the same responsibilities, at a better facility - although I still like Banner - just not as much! :) - and for $8/hr more, and that was only my first 13 weeks; now I make $14.24/hr more!! Woooohooo ladies!!! :):)
Was I willing to learn to scrub?
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