This is an advice question, but I'm asking this here because it's most definitely a question about bagging a healthcare job.
My boyfriend is an RN. While earning his degree, he worked as a tech in an ER. Ever since, as he explained it to me, it has been his dream to work as an ER nurse because unless and until he is an ER nurse, he won't feel like a nurse. When he's really down, he says his job is mainly changing diapers and handing out pills, and that bothers him on a fundamental level. He feels like a failure. It doesn't help that he's applied to at least twenty ER positions at the hospital where he works, as well as others nearby to no avail. He hates, hates, hates the floor he works on now, which is the floor where they stick the new nurses to see if they're really serious about nursing. The ones who aren't run screaming by week's end because that's the floor where all the loons and entitlement whores end up because the other floors refuse to deal with them.
So... as you can probably imagine, it was a very big deal indeed the other day when someone from his hospital's HR called him up out of the blue to schedule an interview for an ER position. This is huge because his hospital is the regional hospital that all the other little ones in this part of the state send the patients they aren't equipped to handle -- and as far as he is concerned, a day without gutshot gangbangers and car accident victims with head trauma is a day that isn't worth living.
So, he's excited. If he gets this job, it's a major coup because his hospital is moving toward requiring nurses with bachelor's degrees, while he only has an associate's degree -- and the ER's requirements are even tougher.
He's nervous. He only worked as a tech, and now all the doubts are piling up. He has some sort of book that he means to read before his interview, but he's also worried about the questions that will be asked of him at the interview.
That leads me to my point. Do any of you medical professionals work in emergency rooms? What were you asked at your interview? How did you prepare? What do you need to know?
Thanks in advance.
My boyfriend is an RN. While earning his degree, he worked as a tech in an ER. Ever since, as he explained it to me, it has been his dream to work as an ER nurse because unless and until he is an ER nurse, he won't feel like a nurse. When he's really down, he says his job is mainly changing diapers and handing out pills, and that bothers him on a fundamental level. He feels like a failure. It doesn't help that he's applied to at least twenty ER positions at the hospital where he works, as well as others nearby to no avail. He hates, hates, hates the floor he works on now, which is the floor where they stick the new nurses to see if they're really serious about nursing. The ones who aren't run screaming by week's end because that's the floor where all the loons and entitlement whores end up because the other floors refuse to deal with them.
So... as you can probably imagine, it was a very big deal indeed the other day when someone from his hospital's HR called him up out of the blue to schedule an interview for an ER position. This is huge because his hospital is the regional hospital that all the other little ones in this part of the state send the patients they aren't equipped to handle -- and as far as he is concerned, a day without gutshot gangbangers and car accident victims with head trauma is a day that isn't worth living.
So, he's excited. If he gets this job, it's a major coup because his hospital is moving toward requiring nurses with bachelor's degrees, while he only has an associate's degree -- and the ER's requirements are even tougher.
He's nervous. He only worked as a tech, and now all the doubts are piling up. He has some sort of book that he means to read before his interview, but he's also worried about the questions that will be asked of him at the interview.
That leads me to my point. Do any of you medical professionals work in emergency rooms? What were you asked at your interview? How did you prepare? What do you need to know?
Thanks in advance.
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