NHS questions

1. How do you ensure confidentiality is adhered to in your daily clinical practice and what guidelines are followed?

2. Effective communication is essential to deliver high standards of patient care. How can you ensure in your clinical practice that this occurs?

3. Can you describe a time you have had to challenge a colleague over their behaviour and how you handled this?

4. When a patient is transferred to your care in the ward area, as the receiving nurse what are your priorities?

5. You are concerned about a member of staffs patient care delivery and attitude towards the patients. Describe what your responsibilities would be?

6. What are the behaviours you feel demonstrate a commitment to patient care?7. You see something is going to be an issue, however it falls outside of your remit, how

would you respond?8. You are completing a drug round and you are unable to clearly read a regular prescribed

medication on the drug chart. What would you do?9. Infection Control is one of the Trusts key priorities. How can you assist the Lead

Nurse/Sister and Matron to prevent patients contracting infections such as MRSA and Clostridium Difficile?

Promote good hand washingEnsure staff/patients and visitors use the alcohol gel on entry/exit to the clinical areaAseptic techniquesEnsure medical staff and junior staff are using hand washing techniques Challenge poor practiceSwabbing patients on transfer from other hospitalsBarrier nursing Liaising closely with the infection control teamEnsure the ward is clean and tidy, take action if not and inform Lead Nurse/Matron

10. What can you do to keep up to date with nursing practices?11. If you are successful today what areas of clinical practice do you feel you will need

support with?