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Interview Questions for intensive care fellow jobs (sample)

  1. Can you tell us about yourself/go through your cv.
  2. Have you been involved in any quality improvement projects ? Can you tell us about your experience ?
  3. Are you aware of the trust values ?
  4. Tell us about a case or an experience that you had difficulty managing or any task you think you did really well.
  5. Have you done a management and leadership course ?
  6. You are called to see a patient in ED who is in respiratory distress with a RR of 35. How do you assess this patient. What would you do ?
  7. You are summoned by your nursing colleague for a patient who developed a rash after being given a dose of amoxicilline. You realise she is allergic to penicilline on patient record. What do you do?
  8. You are summoned by your nursing colleague for a patient who started struggling to breath after intravenous antibiotic administration. You realise she is allergic to penicilline on patient record. What do you do?
  9. You go to a ward to see a patient on the ward who has recently got inserted an NG tube. He is coughing and has started to spike temp after feed being started. +you ask for a CXR which shows NG misplacement. + How do you manage ? + What extra measures would you take ? how do you escalate ?
  10. A postoperative patient comes to ICU after a Esophagectomy operation . drops saturation and gets agitated, what to do ? How do you assess ? What is your differential diagnosis ? How do you diagnose septic shock ?
  11. what do you understand from patient confidentiality ?
  12. What does clinical governance mean ?
  13. how yo treat anaphylaxis ?
  14. how do you treat a status epilepticus ?
  15. What do you enjoy doing in your free time ?
  16. Do you have any questions for us ?
  17. Why do you think we should employ you ?
  18.   There is a pt with tracheostomy. Suddenly, nurse called you about dropping saturation. You increased fio2 to 100% and nurse gave salbutamol. However, sat is low. What would you think and do?
  19. if your junior is not compliant with the ward rules, what would you do ?
  20. Whats your 2 years career plan?