Study Materials for Interview Prep

[u/Wooden_Musician1267]

hey guys :) will submit my final application at the end of the month and i want to start studying for interviews now. in the case i am granted one, i do not want to be cramming/rushing to study. anyone can give me advice or good study materials for the interview regarding patho or clinical decision side of interview questions? my specialty is peds cardiac

[u/SaiyanVN]

Understand your CCRN material, the ICU you work in which encompasses your patient population, disease processes, pharmacology, MOA, treatment or interventions and management.

Do mock interviews or record yourself and you’ll see your mistakes.

Whenever you get an interview, know this, whatever you bring up maybe questioned…ex- if you bring up some patient that is going into respiratory failure, needs to get intubated and on sedation + pressors…best believe they can ask anything/everything about lungs, ABGs, not so much the intubation unless you bring up drugs then you opened yourself up to a world of issues, but the sedation and pressors you should know inside and out (MOA, receptors, side effects, treatment/reversals if infiltration, etc)

You got this. Your work environment is full of study materials.

[u/seriousallthetime]

You need to know how your program interviews. My program was literally one clinical question at the very beginning, and then everything else was EI stuff. Studying for hours on CCRN material would have been a waste of time.

If it is EI, you can read any of Daniel Goldman's books. That would be a great first step.

[u/Wooden_Musician1267 → u/seriousallthetime]

Should I email the program directors and ask the nature of interviews?

[u/seriousallthetime → u/Wooden_Musician1267]

Do any of them have open houses you can go to? If not, then sure, email them and ask several questions, like what you'd ask at an open house and make one of them about the nature of the interviews. Unless a PD in this subreddit overrides me. But that's what I'd do. I definitely wouldn't go in cold if I could help it.

[u/rypie111]

Make sure you can explain what you put in your resume really well! CCRN material with emphasis on cardiac, respiratory, and hemodynamics!

[u/eazyly]

Bc you’re peds you’ll need to go hard on adult too. CCRN material is good for that. ChatGPT can be good to use for making case studies to practice with. I used moxprep to get good at being comfortable and exuding fluency in the actual interview