Hospital Float Pool RN, Full time days (0.9fte), 6a-630p, Every 3rd weekend, Hourly Differential, Oshkosh Campus only
Posted Sep 10, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 20, 2026
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Behavioral
Tell me about a time you floated to a unit you weren't fully familiar with. How did you get oriented fast enough to safely take a patient assignment?
whether the candidate has a real strategy for closing knowledge gaps quickly rather than just muddling through
Tell me about a time a patient's condition changed quickly and you had to act before a provider was available. What did you notice first and what did you do?
clinical judgment and comfort making independent decisions under pressure
How do you build trust with a care team fast when you're the outsider floating in for one shift and they don't know your work?
interpersonal skill and self-awareness about the social friction float nurses often face
Tell me about a time you had to delegate to unlicensed staff on a unit where you didn't know their skill level yet. How did you decide what to hand off?
judgment about delegation and risk when working with unfamiliar staff
Describe a shift where you were pulled in several directions at once, alarms going off, a family asking questions, and a discharge to coordinate. How did you decide what came first?
prioritization skill in a high-interruption environment, which is core to floor nursing
Tell me about a near miss or safety concern you caught before it became a real problem. What did you do about it afterward?
whether they actually report and follow through on safety events rather than just noticing them
Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with a physician or another nurse about a patient's care. How did you handle it?
conflict resolution skills and whether they stay patient-focused rather than defensive
Technical
What's your approach to planning a discharge for a patient when you might not be the nurse who sees the case through to the end of their stay?
understanding that float nurses still own their piece of continuity of care even without long-term follow-through
Situational
This role floats between cardiac med/surg, ortho, peds, and ICU. Walk me through how you'd assess a patient on a unit type you rarely work, say an ICU patient, when your everyday experience is more general med/surg.
whether they know their scope limits and how to escalate or ask for help instead of overreaching
Say you arrive on a unit for a float shift and the charge nurse hands you a full assignment with no orientation to where supplies are or how the team communicates. What do you do in your first ten minutes?
practical self-sufficiency and whether they advocate for basic safety information before diving in
You're assigned to peds for the day but haven't worked with children in months. How do you prepare yourself and keep the patient and family comfortable with your care?
honesty about skill gaps and how they compensate for infrequent practice in a specialty population
If you noticed a unit's practice for something like line care or fall precautions didn't match what you'd been trained on, how would you handle it in the moment?
how they navigate practice variation across units without compromising standards or causing conflict
Given the every-third-weekend, block schedule, and floating across four different unit types, what's realistically hard about this kind of role for you, and how do you plan to manage it?
self-awareness about the demands of float work and whether they've honestly thought through the tradeoffs
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