Registered Nurse (RN) - CICU Weekend Program Days
Posted Sep 16, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 20, 2026
Likely interview questions for this role
Written from this job description, not a generic list. Each one notes what the interviewer is really checking.
Behavioral
Tell me about a time a patient on your unit coded or deteriorated fast. What was your role and what happened right after?
composure and clarity of action under a real emergency, and whether they can describe their specific contribution rather than the team's
Tell me about a time you disagreed with a physician or another team member about a patient's plan of care. How did you handle it and what was the outcome?
ability to advocate for patients respectfully within a hierarchical clinical environment
Describe a time you had to give bad news or a hard update to a patient's family. How did you approach it?
communication skill and compassion with families of critically ill cardiac patients
What does a safe patient environment mean to you on a unit like this, and can you give an example of a time you caught something before it became a bigger problem?
vigilance and proactive safety mindset, which the posting explicitly calls out
What made you want to move toward cardiac critical care specifically, and how have you kept building that skill set?
genuine interest and specialization versus taking any open ICU job
Technical
Walk me through a shift where you had a patient in cardiogenic shock or an acute MI. What did you see, what did you do first, and how did that change over the next few hours?
whether the candidate has real hands-on experience with high-acuity cardiac patients versus general ICU exposure
How do you manage caring for a patient right after a TAVR or complex stent procedure, in terms of what you're watching for in the first several hours?
specific clinical knowledge of post-procedural cardiac monitoring, not just general ICU knowledge
What's your experience with vasoactive drips, and can you talk through how you'd titrate one for a patient whose blood pressure starts trending down?
comfort level with core CICU pharmacology and titration protocols
How comfortable are you with dysrhythmia recognition and what would you do if you saw a new onset of something like rapid afib or a run of V-tach on the monitor?
baseline telemetry competency expected in a cardiac ICU
Situational
Say you're watching a patient pre-heart transplant and their status suddenly changes. Who do you loop in, in what order, and what do you do while you wait?
understanding of escalation pathways and prioritization in a high-stakes, specialized population
You've got two patients, one is a multisystem organ failure patient needing close titration and the other is stable but has a family member who is very anxious and keeps pulling you aside. How do you divide your attention?
triage judgment and time management under competing demands typical of a 24-bed high acuity unit
Tell me about a weekend or holiday shift where staffing felt thin. How did you and the team make it work?
realistic expectations about the weekend program's staffing pattern and teamwork under strain
This is a set weekend schedule, Saturday and Sunday 7 to 7, plus some holidays. How does that fit with your life right now, and have you worked a schedule like that before?
realistic commitment to the specific weekend program structure and holiday coverage
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