Registered Nurse-Critical Care Float Part-Time Nights
Posted Sep 17, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Part-time nights floating critical care at Winfield. How does that fit your life?
What they are checking: The posting states the hours, the shift and the site.
What would you do
How do you take report in an intensive care unit you have not worked recently?
What they are checking: Floating in critical care raises the stakes on a handover.
You arrive at a code that is already under way. What do you do first?
What they are checking: The posting names participation on the code blue team.
How do you advise a floor nurse who has called you about a patient?
What they are checking: The posting names RN and telemetry consults as part of the critical response role.
What do you do if you are assigned patients you do not feel competent to take?
What they are checking: Refusing an unsafe assignment is a professional duty and it takes nerve.
What is thinner overnight, and how do you work around it as a float?
What they are checking: The posting is nights and float nurses have the fewest resources overnight.
About the work
Tell me about your critical care nursing experience.
What they are checking: The posting is a critical care float role at Winfield.
Tell me about your part on a rapid response call.
What they are checking: The posting names participation on the rapid response team.
How do you manage a patient on a ventilator and several drips?
What they are checking: The core technical work of intensive care.
What do the eight behaviors of hourly rounding mean to you in practice?
What they are checking: The posting names them specifically.
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