Category Archives: Nursing Uniforms and Scrubs

1. What is your name?
My name is Alex P. Lee
2. What led to your interest in nursing?
I find it a very challenging job in a ways imaginable.
3. Describe a challenging problem you faced on one of your clinical rotations. How did you solve the problem?
Assisting in the OR where I’m expected to maintain sterility throughout the procedure.
4. When you are experiencing a stressful work situation, how do you relax? I calm myself down in a moment and take the situation bit by bit.
5. Give a specific example of a time when you knew you did a good job as a nurse.
It is fulfilling on my part whenever a patient would recover from specific illness then be discharged in well condition.
6. Have you ever been burned out? When? What did you do about it?
Yes, it was last year when I work in ICU/CUI where intense management is needed much. I tried not to exhaust myself by cooling off my mind and body.
7. How would you respond if asked by the head nurse to do some of the menial tasks for patients that are normally not your responsibility?
I would do it. It’s your responsibility to take good care of your patients. While they are still inside the hospital, they do need care. It’s your responsibility to attend to their needs, in a proper and menial manner. As a person, you always have to stay humble.
8. How would you respond if, in a rude and haughty tone, a doctor questioned your work, which you knew to be top-notch and absolutely accurate?
I’d deal with him/her with manners and talk over the matter in a right place.
9. Do you think you will be a career nurse or eventually look for another profession? Why?
Yes, for career advancement.
10. Why did you decide to become a nurse rather than a doctor?
For practical reason, nursing job is in demand nowadays.
11. Describe a situation in which you found yourself working with someone who was very sensitive and thin-skinned?
I am extra-sensitive to everyone. In that case, you really have to watch what you’re doing and what you’re gonna say. Think, a hundred times, before act. And always be ready to say sorry, in case you have to.
12. Can you describe a situation connected with nursing that made you angry?
When your colleagues criticizes you, or call you names, just because they envy you. Or when the relatives try to do things which they think can do good to the patient. It’s your liability of course you have to stop them from doing things which can be harmful for the patient. But believe me, it’s really hard to stop the relatives, they would even think you are at the wrong side and that they know better.
13. We have all tried different ways of showing consideration for others. What are some things that you have done in this respect?
By giving due respect to patient, administering medications on time, handling patient with care establishing patient with care, specially to the relatives of a dying patient, you have to show consideration to their feelings as well as your patients. You have to show empathy. Think as if you were in their place. Give them privacy. And if you have to do some tasks, tell them in a humble, low-toned voice, and in a proper manner.
14. What are some ways that you feel that nursing can become more professional?
Scrub suits or Nursing uniforms should be made officially for nurses only. Nowadays, I can see janitors, baby-sitters and maids wearing it. Somehow, as a nurse, I perceive it as degrading.
15. If you were told that the nursing field was closed and that you could not become a nurse, what would your do?
Try other field. Find a way. There are always alternative ways to pursue my career. If not here, I can try other countries.
16. What types of colleague do you least like to work with?
Pessimistic, the lazy ones, they also seem to be non-efficient, the ones who talks a lot and does nothing. I might as well work alone.
17. What type of nursing tasks do you find most objectionable?
Nothing in specific. It’s more on finding the tasks nurses aren’t allowed to do, just because they are “just nurses”, objectionable.
18. Describe a situation connected with nursing that you experienced in the last year that made you angry.
When my mom questioned me. Why can’t I work “not” as a volunteer? I don’t think she understands. It’s hard to find a nursing job in this country!! Neither can I go abroad, I still need 2 years of hospital experience.
19. How many years do you see yourself staying with this hospital?
As long as I’m happy with the work environment.
20. How do you go about making a decision?
I seek wisdom from God and consult my mother.