Patient Care Technician Float CDH Resource Team Full-time Nights
Posted Sep 17, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about float or resource team work.
What they are checking: The posting is the CDH resource team, covering units across the hospital.
Full time nights on the CDH resource team at Winfield. How does that fit your life?
What they are checking: The posting states the shift, the team and the site.
What would you do
How do you get oriented on a unit you have never worked, at the start of a night shift?
What they are checking: The defining task of float work and it happens under time pressure.
Supplies and equipment are in different places on every unit. How do you handle that?
What they are checking: The practical hazard of floating, and overnight there is nobody to ask.
How do you build trust with a nursing team in one shift?
What they are checking: A float has to be trusted immediately without the history that builds trust.
You are asked to do something you have not been oriented to on that unit. What do you do?
What they are checking: The most important boundary in float work and holding it takes nerve.
What is thinner overnight, and how do you work around it?
What they are checking: The posting is full time nights, with fewer staff and fewer services available.
How do you keep several patients' needs in order when they all want you?
What they are checking: The posting names prioritizing and completing unit work quickly as needs change.
About the work
Walk me through taking vital signs and a blood glucose measurement.
What they are checking: The posting names both among the delegated nursing care activities.
What would make you tell the nurse about a patient right away?
What they are checking: The posting names reporting abnormal findings or changes in condition.
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