RN - Medical ICU - Days
Posted Oct 1, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
This role asks for two years of critical care. Tell me about the kinds of patients you cared for and the drips you managed most often.
What they are checking: Whether their ICU background is deep enough to work nights in a medical ICU without close supervision.
Tell me about a time you supported a family through a goals of care or end-of-life conversation.
What they are checking: Whether they can be honest and kind with families facing the hardest decisions in a medical ICU.
How do you delegate tasks to a tech or less experienced nurse on a busy night?
What they are checking: Whether they know what can be safely delegated and follow up, which the posting names as part of the role.
ACLS is required within six months. Tell me about a code you have been part of and what your role was.
What they are checking: Whether they have real experience in a code and can stay calm and useful when it happens.
How do you keep yourself safe and alert across 12-hour night shifts with rotating weekends and holidays?
What they are checking: Whether they have real fatigue habits, since tired ICU nurses are more likely to make medication errors.
What would you do
It is 3 a.m. and you think your patient is getting worse, but the resident on call does not seem worried. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they will escalate up the chain of command at night when their gut and the numbers say something is wrong.
You have two critical patients and one starts to crash while the other is due for a titration. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: Whether they can prioritize and ask for help from coworkers when one nurse cannot safely do both.
About the work
Your septic patient's MAP has dropped to 58 even with norepinephrine running. What do you assess and what do you do next?
What they are checking: Whether they can think through fluids, pressors, lines and labs and know when to call the intensivist.
How do you know if a sedated patient on the ventilator is in pain or too deeply sedated?
What they are checking: Whether they use scoring tools and real assessment instead of guessing, which affects delirium and time on the vent.
Walk me through how you prepare for and help with an intubation at the bedside.
What they are checking: Whether they know the equipment, meds and roles needed so the airway goes in safely the first time.
How do you prevent central line infections and catheter infections in your patients?
What they are checking: Whether they follow bundle practices every time, since these infections are preventable and serious.
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