Practice prompts based on occupational tasks
These Applyace practice prompts use O*NET tasks for licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses. They are not reported employer questions. If you have not done a task, explain your approach and learning needs instead of inventing experience.
1. Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
Describe a real example of this task. What was your responsibility, and what happened?
2. Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
How did you decide which approach or tools to use? Explain the tradeoffs.
3. Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
What could go wrong during this task? Describe how you would check your work.
4. Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
Explain a time you coordinated this work with someone else. How did you communicate?
5. Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
How would you handle an unfamiliar part of this task? Identify what you would need to learn.
6. Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
What evidence would show this task was completed successfully?
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Pick an occupational task, then outline a real example. This is practice, not a prediction of an employer’s questions.
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Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
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Questions to ask the interviewer
- Which of these occupational tasks takes the most time on your team?
- How do you measure success in the first three months?
- Which tools, training and support are available for this role?
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