Pediatric Nurses, do you enjoy your job?

Please give me some tips in a Pediatric nursing job interview?

• Got interview tomorrow for a pediatric nurse position. I have no pediatric experience as a nurse mostly adult medicine. Any nurses out there willing to give me some ideas about pediatric nursing? I would appreciate it so much. I really want and need this job because I enjoy and care about children. I just want to know what to expect in a pediatric nursing interview.

• Answer:

  Hi TCCIC I think you in part answered your own question: "I really want and need this job because I enjoy and care about children. " You have to let that flow from your heart in the interview. Think about your good qualities from now, think also about your weaknesses as they may ask you about both of these. As a paediatric nurse: you need to be confident [children can easily pick up on your insecurities/lack of confidence] and you also need to be very patient. It would be very rewarding: but you also need to be able to deal with loss and that can be very difficult where babies and very young children are concerned. You also need excellent peoples skills to be able to talk to parents in difficult situations and help them. Try to think of times when you have been in a difficult situation in your career already and how well you coped. They may ask you concerning such situations and you ought to have an answer ready. I wish you all the luck in the world. Be confident. You will only get what is destined for you anyway so just be relaxed, and above all be yourself [to thine own self be true ~ Shakespeare [Hamlet]]. Best wishes.