RN Weekender - Cardiac Neuro ICU - Nights
Posted Oct 1, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a code or rapid response you were part of in critical care. What was your role?
What they are checking: Whether they've performed under real pressure with ACLS-level skills and can describe their part clearly.
Tell me about a time you had to deliver hard news or support a family through a poor prognosis.
What they are checking: Whether they can communicate with compassion during the worst days of a family's life.
You have five years of critical care. What's something you used to do that you've changed based on evidence?
What they are checking: Whether they keep learning and apply evidence rather than relying only on experience.
What would you do
Your cardiac surgery patient's chest tube output jumps and their pressure is dropping. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they recognize bleeding or tamponade fast and act while getting the team to the bedside.
As a weekender, you work every weekend when fewer leaders are around. How do you handle a problem that would normally go to the manager?
What they are checking: Whether they can make sound decisions and use the chain of command when support is thin.
How do you handle being asked to take a patient load you feel is unsafe?
What they are checking: Whether they speak up through proper channels instead of either refusing or quietly accepting risk.
About the work
Walk me through your neuro assessment on a post-stroke patient, and what change would make you call right away.
What they are checking: Whether they do a consistent neuro check and recognize subtle decline that needs an immediate response.
How do you manage a patient on multiple vasoactive drips, and how do you titrate safely?
What they are checking: Whether they understand the drugs, targets and double checks that keep drip titration safe in an ICU.
How do you care for a patient with an EVD or elevated intracranial pressure?
What they are checking: Whether they have the specialized neuro ICU knowledge this mixed cardiac and neuro unit needs.
What do you delegate to a PCT on this unit, and what do you always keep for yourself?
What they are checking: Whether they know Illinois scope rules and keep assessment and judgment with the RN.
Your stroke patient is a candidate for thrombectomy. How do you prepare them and what do you watch for after?
What they are checking: Whether they know the timing, access site and neuro monitoring that follow a stroke intervention.
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