Psych Nurse Interview | Questions & Answers | OWN THE INTERVIEW! YOU GOT THIS!

Interested in Interview Coaching? Email: [email protected] Learn how to OWN your interview, decrease interview anxiety and how to answer some common questions in a psyche interview. 0:00 Intro 0:40 How this video relates to your potential job 1:50 The mindset you should adopt going into ANY interview 2:30 How to alleviate pressure and anxiety in an interview 4:40 Tip #1 Own your honesty 5:45 Question #1 Tell me about your knowledge of psychiatric medication 7:18 Tip #2 Remember the names of the people interviewing you and use their name when answering their questions. 7:50 How would you handle an angry client? 9:10 Question #2 What would you do if a client became angry in the day hall? 10:28 Tip #3 Know a little about the place you're going to be working 12:10 Question #3 How do you handle gossip at work? 12:40 Pausing to answer a question during the interview is POWERFUL! 14:50 How to answer the question, "What questions do you have for us?" Here’s tip #1, own your honesty. If the interviewers ask you a question and you don’t know the answer or you know it’s one of your weaknesses, that’s okay. What interviewers want--especially those working in psyche--is someone who they feel they can trust and someone they feel can work w/ and someone they feel who is honest. I know if I was hiring someone, I’d rather hire someone who I know I can work w/ and who has a good personality than someone who has a lot of expertise but is a stick in the mud. And for those of you w/ a lot of work experience, you know how important it is to work w/ good coworkers--so in the back of our minds as we interview people we are always wondering, “Hey, is this someone I myself could work w/?” If the answer is ‘yes,’ we have a very good chance of being hired. Here’s my next tip: try and remember the names of the people interviewing you. Make a mental note of what their names are, and when they ask you a question, use their name when you answer their question. Here’s another question I was asked during my interview, “What would you do if a client became angry in the day hall?” Here’s tip #3: know a little bit about the place you’re going to be working. Who do they serve? What demographic is most common? How many beds do they have? Etc. Knowing some basic information will help you answer the question of “tell me what you know about this hospital” and you can also tie this information into some of your responses. For instance, say you’re going to be working at a hospital in a busy city, in one of your answers you might say something like, “Well Jill I’m glad you asked about how I manage my time, and I know it’s especially important in a hospital like this where we are getting patients in and out on the same day. . .so here’s how I manage my time while at work.” This shows the interviewers you are familiar w/ the position and the hospital, and shows you care enough about the position to have some of your own research. Here’s question #3 and this one caught me completely off guard and so I’ll show you how I answered it. “How do you handle gossip at work?” This question in retrospect was a great question b/c after working in psyche for a while now, I can tell you gossip is rampant inside psyche hospitals and it reminds me of being back in middle school. I had to think about my answer so I told the interviewer, “Jill that’s a great question, give me a second while I think about it.”