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In this situation it is very important to design an effective interview for hiring new nurse.

The design is structured, composing both structured and behavioral questions. The people who interview and rate the applicant nurses and then use the rating sheets anchored with examples of good or bad answers to rate the given answers by the applicant nurses. The designing of such effective interview must follow these sequential steps: Step 1: Analyze the job. At first we write a job description with a list of job duties, required knowledge, skills, abilities and other qualifications. The job description may be like thisJob description for the nurses: Registered Nurse : pediatrics, trauma and maternity Assists the medical practitioners as their team to examine patients, administer treatment. Observes records and reports on patients' condition and their reactions to drugs and other treatments. Job Qualification : Must be in nursing profession as Diploma, Registered nurse or Midwife. Capable to make communication in English language. Friendly with computer system to record their job. Other requirements: Minimal two years of experience to work in a hospital Must have motivation to work as nurse. The nurses will get attractive salary, annual leave, return airplane ticket, accommodation such as housing and transportation. If you interest to work in private hospital like ours and want to apply the job vacancy above, send your resume to the E-mail: Hussam@sstaffing.com. Only candidate in shortlist will get contact by them to join test recruitment nurse.

Step 2: Rate the main duties. Recognize Assists the medical practitioners as their team to examine patients, administer treatment. As the main duty of the nurses and then proceed to the further stages of interview.

Step 3: Developing interview questions. Now develop a questionnaire for interviewing applicants. This can be used as a questionnaire. INTERVIEW QUESTIONS FOR NURSES 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. What led to your interest in nursing? 3. Describe a challenging problem you faced on one of your clinical rotations. How did you solve the problem? 4. When you are experiencing a stressful work situation, how do you relax? 5. Give a specific example of a time when you knew you did a good job as a nurse. 6. Have you ever been burned out? When? What did you do about it? 7. How would you respond if asked by the head nurse to do some of the menial tasks for patients that are normally not your responsibility? 8. How do you relax when faced with stressful work situations? 9. How would you respond if, in a rude and haughty tone, a doctor questioned your work, which you knew to be top-notch and absolutely accurate? 10. Do you think you will be a career nurse or eventually look for another profession? Why? 11. Why did you decide to become a nurse rather than a doctor? 12. Describe a situation in which you found yourself working with someone who was very sensitive and thin-skinned? 13. Can you describe a situation connected with nursing that mad you angry? 14. We have all tried different ways of showing consideration for others. What are some things that you have done in this respect? 15. What are some ways that you feel that nursing can become more professional? 16. If you were told that the nursing field was closed and that you could not become a nurse, what would your do? 17. What type of colleague does you least like to work with? 18. What type of nursing tasks do you find most objectionable? 19. Describe a situation connected with nursing that you experienced in the last year that made you angry. 20. How many years do you se yourself staying with this hospital? 21. How do you go about making a decision? 22. Are there any questions that you have for me?

Step 4: Create standards for answer. Now it is determine ideal answer for each question answered. Step 5: Appoint the interview panel and conduct the interview. The interview panel consists of I. II. III. The HR director- Hussam Directors of pediatrics, trauma and maternity departments The nursing director

Now all panel members record the answers of the applicants on scorecard and hire according to it. As we have the appropriate design for an effective interview it is also important to conduct an effective interview. To conduct an effective interview these steps must be followed: Step 1: make the interview panel fully aware about what the duties are associated with the job and qualifications it requires. Step 2: follow the design properly. Step 3: get organized that means conduct the interview as required environment. Step 4: ask all applicants the entire question instead of random questioning.

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