Registered Nurse-Cardiac-ICU Full-Time Nights
Posted Sep 17, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 22, 2026
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About your past
Full time nights at Winfield. How does that fit your life?
What they are checking: The posting states the shift and the site.
What would you do
A patient arrests overnight. Walk me through your part in it.
What they are checking: The posting is nights, when the intensivist may not be at the bedside.
What is thinner overnight in a cardiac ICU, and how do you work around it?
What they are checking: Fewer specialists, fewer services and no rounding team to lean on.
How do you talk to a family waiting through the first night?
What they are checking: The posting names collaborating with patient and family, and the first night is the frightening one.
About the work
Tell me about your cardiac intensive care experience.
What they are checking: The posting is a cardiac ICU at Central DuPage.
How do you manage a patient on several titrated drips at once?
What they are checking: The core technical work of cardiac intensive care.
What do you watch for in the first hours after a cardiac procedure or surgery?
What they are checking: Bleeding, tamponade and rhythm are what a cardiac ICU nurse is watching for immediately.
Which rhythms would make you act immediately, and what would you do?
What they are checking: In a cardiac ICU the rhythm is the reason the patient is there.
What experience do you have with mechanical support such as a balloon pump?
What they are checking: Mechanical circulatory support is part of a cardiac intensive care population.
How do you hand over a complex ICU patient so nothing is lost?
What they are checking: Handover in critical care carries more information than anywhere else in the hospital.
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