Staff Nurse - Primary Care Part-time Days
Posted Sep 15, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
The posting mentions the six medication rights and reducing medication errors. Tell me about a near miss you caught.
What they are checking: Honesty about error and what changed afterward
Describe a time you had to deliver an abnormal result to a patient over the phone.
What they are checking: Clear, calm delivery inside the scope of what a nurse may say
The posting talks about assessing physical, psychosocial, safety, spiritual and cultural needs. Give me an example where the social side changed the plan.
What they are checking: Whether the whole-person assessment is real or a checkbox
What would you do
This is a 32-hour part-time day role in primary care at Woodridge. How does that schedule fit what you're looking for?
What they are checking: Whether part-time hours are the goal or a compromise they'll leave over
A patient calls saying their blood sugar has been running in the 300s for three days. Walk me through your call.
What they are checking: Phone triage judgment and knowing when to bring someone in
How do you handle a patient who has not taken their blood pressure medication in two months and does not think they need it?
What they are checking: Teaching without lecturing, and finding the real reason
A physician's schedule is running ninety minutes behind and the waiting room is full. What do you do?
What they are checking: Managing the room and the patients rather than just absorbing it
About the work
Primary care nursing runs heavily on the message queue. How do you work through patient messages and results without letting the urgent ones sit?
What they are checking: Triage discipline in a queue that never empties
What's your part in making sure a referral or a prior authorization actually goes through?
What they are checking: Ownership of loose ends in an outpatient practice
What vaccines, screenings and standing orders have you worked under in a primary care office?
What they are checking: Concrete outpatient scope rather than general nursing
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