General
- What do you enjoy most about working in the health services field?
- What do you like the least about working in the health services field?
- What are the most important qualities a health services professional should have?
Hospital Administration
- Why did you choose hospital administration as a career?
- What are some of the ways the health services industry can improve?
- What size hospitals have you worked for? How many beds?
- What are your areas of specialty in health services?
- In your opinion, what is the most important issue in medicine today?
- What impact do you hope to make in the health services industry?
- In your opinion, what is the most important advance in medicine in the last 20 to 50
- years?
- Are you accustomed to suggesting areas for research?
- Have you designed and carried out research projects?
- If you were given money to set up a research group, what would you research?
Nurses
- Why did you choose nursing as a career?
- What stimulated your interest in medicine?
- What was the nurse-to-patient ratio at your last job?
- What shift lengths are you accustomed to working?
- How much autonomy were you given in your last position for making decisions
- regarding the care of patients?
- What value did you bring to your last nursing staff?
- What type of scheduling process are you accustomed to—self-scheduling, unit
- scheduling, etc.?
- In your last position, how much independence were nurses given in order to be
- creative problem-solvers? Can you give me examples?
- What do you do when you have too many patients and too little time?
- What is it about you that allows you to devote yourself to others this way day after
- day?
- Over the course of the last year, how many times were you asked to work late
- because your replacement was absent? Did you stay late?
- Can you tell me what you would consider as valid reasons for missing work?
- What do you do if you realize a snowstorm is coming an hour before you have to be
- at work, and you know it will take you much longer than usual to get there?
- What do you do if your shift has ended but your replacement is not there yet?
- What would your previous supervisor tell us about your attendance?
- How many days of scheduled work did you miss in the past 6 months due to
- unexcused absences?
- What parts of your nursing job do you like the least?
- What would you do if you were directed to do some menial tasks for a patient that
- are usually not your responsibility?
- Do you plan on staying in the nursing profession for the long term?
- What made you decide to become a nurse instead of a doctor?
- What support services were available to you in your last position?
- Describe for me a situation when you went beyond the call of duty for a patient.
- How do you keep yourself from getting burned out?
- Describe for me the types of technology you have used.
CNA
- Why did you choose certified nursing assistant as a career?
- Describe for me a situation when you went beyond the call of duty for a patien
- Why do you want to work here?
- Do you plan on staying in the CNA profession for the long term?
- What parts of your CNA job do you like the least?
- How many days of scheduled work did you miss in the past 6 months due to
- unexcused absences?
- What do you know about restorative nursing?
- How do you establish priorities and structure your workday? How do you keep things
- flowing while there are interruptions?
- To what extent would people describe you as predictable?
- What are some of the strategies you employ for dealing with difficult people?
- Describe a conflict you have faced in a work environment. How did you resolve it.
- What percentage of the day do you spend documenting? Do you find you have
- enough time to document your work?
- What does “on-time” mean to you? What would your previous employer say about
- your attendance?
- What didn’t you like about your last job?
- Give us an example of when you had to be flexible or adaptable in your job?
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