Clinical Nurse Specialist Interview Questions

There are 4 different sets of questions for this title
61 Provide an experience in which you performed discharge planning for patients.
62 Share an experience in which you supervised and instructed nursing staff. What made you an effective supervisor?
63 Provide a time when you were able to identify a complex problem, evaluate the options, and implement a solution. How did the solution benefit your employer?
64 Describe an experience in which your ability to work well with others and reconcile differences helped your company or employer. (Make sure the candidate knows how to negotiate.)
65 Describe a time when you successfully persuaded another person to change his/her way of thinking or behavior.
66 Tell me about effective nursing service philosophies, goals, policies, priorities, or procedures which you developed. What factors did you consider when developing them?
67 Name a time when your creativity or alternative thinking solved a problem in your workplace.
68 Tell me about an effective education program or in-service training session which you conducted.
69 How do you stay fit in order to perform physical activities that are required in the workplace?
70 Share an experience in which personal connections to coworkers or others helped you to be successful in your work. (Make sure candidate works well with others.)
71 Share an experience in which you participated in a clinical research project.
72 What is the state of your documentation? Name one thing you would like to improve.
73 Tell me about the last time you oversaw the work of someone else. How did you effectively motivate, develop, and direct the worker(s)?
74 Share an experience in which you used new training skills, ideas, or a method to adapt to a new situation or improve an ongoing one. (Look for the candidate's ability to learn.)
75 What is the most challenging part of budgeting for you?