Registered Nurse 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 nursing.
What they are checking: The posting is the CDH resource team, covering units across the hospital.
Full time nights on the 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
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.
You are asked to do something you are not oriented to on that unit. What do you do?
What they are checking: The most important boundary in float nursing and holding it takes nerve.
A patient deteriorates and you do not know the team. How do you escalate?
What they are checking: Not knowing the resources is the float nurse's real disadvantage overnight.
How do you build a working relationship with a team in one shift?
What they are checking: A float has to be trusted immediately, without the history that builds trust.
How do you stay connected to changes on units you only visit occasionally?
What they are checking: Resource nurses miss the unit communication and the drift is real.
About the work
How do you take report on a unit you have never worked?
What they are checking: The defining skill of resource team nursing, done under time pressure at the start of nights.
What do you assess first when you inherit an assignment of patients you do not know?
What they are checking: The posting names collecting and analyzing data and developing an individualized plan.
How do you hand over at the end of a shift so nothing is lost?
What they are checking: The posting names evaluating and documenting responses to interventions, and handover carries it forward.
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