Registered Nurse Interviews

Registered Nurse Interview Questions

Working as a registered nurse involves providing direct care to patients in various health care settings. When interviewing for a position as a registered nurse, you'll likely face questions about your nursing experience and how you handle stressful situations.

Top Registered Nurse Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question #1: How do you work as part of a team?

How to answer
How to answer: Health care providers work together as part of a team to provide better care to patients and address their unique needs. When you answer this question, use the STAR method (situation, task, action, result) to outline a specific situation in which you collaborated well with your team and the positive outcome that came from doing so. Describe your collaboration, flexibility, and cooperation skills in your answer.
Question 2

Question #2: How would you describe effective patient education?

How to answer
How to answer: When answering a question about educating patients, a task that often falls on the RN, emphasize the importance of adapting to different learning styles to provide quality education. You might talk about different options to indicate a willingness to cater to the needs of a patient and demonstrate your communication skills.
Question 3

Question #3: Describe a situation in which you worked with a difficult patient.

How to answer
How to answer: Across all areas of health care, registered nurses will encounter difficult and uncooperative patients. In your answer, talk about a situation in which you faced a challenging patient and what you did to help them feel more comfortable and at ease.

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I was asked a few critical thinking nursing questions, the one I remember the best was something like "You have a patient who is post-op (ortho surgery, knee or hip?). The patient is doing well when all the sudden you are called to the room and the patient is having sharp chest pain and shortness of breath"..and maybe they added another symptom or two...can't remember exactly. I was asked what I would suspect was going on with the patient based on scenario.
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Registered Nurse

Interviewed at Our Lady of Lourdes

3.5
Apr 25, 2015

I was asked a few critical thinking nursing questions, the one I remember the best was something like "You have a patient who is post-op (ortho surgery, knee or hip?). The patient is doing well when all the sudden you are called to the room and the patient is having sharp chest pain and shortness of breath"..and maybe they added another symptom or two...can't remember exactly. I was asked what I would suspect was going on with the patient based on scenario.

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