Interview Question For Clinical Staffs

A & D Home Health Care

Interview Question For Clinical Staffs

Nurse Date

Full Time Per Diem Part Time RN LVN/LPN Other Disciplines

1.Why are you interested in home health care?

2. What would you say your clinical strengths are?

Experience with IV’s (working with IV’s, VP’s starting IV’s)

Experience with Portacaths, insertion etc.?

Experience with wound care?

Experience with G-tubes, changing them, etc.?

Experience with Suprapubic Catheters?

Experience with Ventelators/Trachs?

Experience with pediatrics

3. What areas do you feel you need improvement in?

4. Describe your organizational skills/Time management skills:

5. Describe the way you deal with difficult / stressful situations:

6. Describe your interpersonal skills

with Peers with MD’s with patients with immediate supervisors

7. How would you describe your relationships with LVN’s / LPN’s or RN’s?

8. Specifics about home health care

a. we are very strict & maintain high standards and expectations of the staff

b. It is imperative to have reliable transportatio

c. documentation is critical and of the utmost importance

d. Case conferences – are held once per week and those meetings are mandatory

e. Nursing meetings - are held monthly and those too are mandatory.

f. Full time RN’s are salary exempt – no overtime

g. Full time employees are not allowed to work at other home health care agencies

9. Benefits after the 90 day probationary period

10. Introductory period for nurses is 6 months. Orientation time: 2 to 6 weeks

11. Salary $ per hour

12. Interested in position?

13. When to expect a call back from A & D HOME HEALTH CARE

14. Other issues covered in interview:

Signature of Interviewer	Date
Other individual present for interview	Date

Addendum Questions for Interviewing

1. What were the strengths and weaknesses of your past supervisors?

This will test their maturity. If they take repeated stabs at former bosses, no matter how subtle, you may be dealing with someone who has a problem with authority.

2. What was your biggest failure in your last job?

This question is to see if they can accept blame. If candidate puts it off on others and doesn’t accept any of the responsibility, you may have a problem on your hands.

3. Listen to pronouns used, especially in how they answer the above questions. Do they always say “I” this and “I” that, or do they refer to “we” when talking about former jobs? “We” people tend to be team oriented. It means they build strong team bonds and probably will bond with your team.

4. Learn to spot “producers”. Don’t focus on job descriptions – anyone can write those. Focus on specific projects they’ve completed and review the results. Have them talk in length about the process. Hire people with a proven production record – not fancy job descriptions.

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