Registered Nurse CDH OR Full-time Evenings Sign-On Bonus Available
Posted Sep 17, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
An afternoon shift starting at one until half past eleven, four days a week. How does that fit your life?
What they are checking: Honest fit with a schedule the posting states precisely.
How do you work with a surgeon whose manner is difficult under pressure?
What they are checking: A real part of the job, and whether they can stay effective through it.
Tell me about a time you spoke up during a case.
What they are checking: Whether they will, which is the most protective thing an OR nurse does.
What would you do
How do you advocate for a patient who is asleep and cannot speak?
What they are checking: The defining responsibility of an OR nurse.
Something in the room breaks sterility. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they call it, which takes nerve in front of a surgical team.
About the work
Tell me about your operating room experience and the cases you have scrubbed or circulated.
What they are checking: Whether perioperative nursing is familiar, which is unlike any floor role.
Walk me through your role as circulator from the patient arriving to leaving the room.
What they are checking: Whether they know the whole sequence including the parts either side of the incision.
Talk me through a count and what you do if it does not reconcile.
What they are checking: The most serious procedural safeguard in an operating room.
How do you prepare for a case you have not done before?
What they are checking: Whether they prepare deliberately rather than turning up.
How do you hand a patient over to recovery?
What they are checking: Handover, which is where post-operative patients are most often harmed.
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