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Just passed my boards a couple weeks back and now I’m stuck going back and forth on where to even apply. Public hospitals seem way more open to fresh grads with zero floor experience, but everyone keeps telling me the money’s better at a good private clinic. Problem is I’ve also heard their interviews are brutal on people straight out of school. Anyone actually been through one of those and knows how to prep?
Private clinics get flooded with applicants for every single opening so they don’t have to take a chance on anyone, unlike a hospital that’s just trying to fill a shift fast. What actually gets people is the clinical stuff, not the “tell me about yourself” part. You can have your résumé memorized cold and still freeze up the second they throw a random patient scenario at you and expect you to think out loud in front of three strangers.
That freezing up thing happens to almost everyone the first time, mostly because nobody actually rehearses saying answers out loud before the real thing, they just read through questions in their head and assume that counts. The clinical scenarios are the worst part too, panels love throwing some random patient situation at you and watching if you can think it through calmly instead of just reciting textbook stuff. There’s a rundown of the questions new grad RN panels tend to ask here: https://roundlyhq.com/blog/new-grad-rn-interview-questions/ . Goes through the STAR and SBAR stuff for behavioral versus clinical answers and even covers things like handling multiple patients who all need you at once.
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