eGigStaff nurse interview questions and answers
Nursing interviews check clinical basics, patient safety, infection control and how you handle pressure and families. Hospitals often add a practical or written test.
12 questions. Read each one, start the timer and answer out loud as if you were in the room, then open the tip. Nothing is recorded.
Why did you choose nursing?
What a good answer covers
An honest, personal reason and what you enjoy about caring for patients.
What are normal adult vital signs?
What a good answer covers
Temperature about 36.5 to 37.5 °C, pulse 60 to 100 per minute, respiration 12 to 20 per minute, BP around 120/80 mmHg, SpO₂ 95 to 100%.
How do you prevent hospital-acquired infections?
What a good answer covers
Hand hygiene at the five moments, PPE, aseptic technique, clean equipment and correct waste segregation.
What are the rights of medication administration?
What a good answer covers
Right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, right time, and right documentation.
What do you do if you make a medication error?
What a good answer covers
Check the patient, inform the doctor and senior nurse at once, monitor closely and report it. Never hide it.
How is biomedical waste segregated?
What a good answer covers
Yellow for anatomical and soiled waste, red for contaminated plastics, white puncture-proof containers for sharps, blue for glass.
Several patients need you at once. How do you prioritise?
What a good answer covers
Airway, breathing and circulation first, then by urgency. Ask for help early.
A patient refuses medicine. What do you do?
What a good answer covers
Ask why, explain simply, inform the doctor and document the refusal.
A patient’s family is angry. What do you do?
What a good answer covers
Listen calmly, explain what you can, involve the doctor or in-charge, and keep the patient’s privacy.
How do you hand over at the end of a shift?
What a good answer covers
Use SBAR: situation, background, assessment and recommendation, ideally at the bedside.
What are the steps of adult CPR?
What a good answer covers
Check response and breathing, call for help, 30 compressions to 2 breaths at 100 to 120 a minute, 5 to 6 cm deep, and use an AED when it arrives.
Are you comfortable with night shifts and rotations?
What a good answer covers
Answer honestly and say which departments you have worked in.
All 12 questions with answers
1. Why did you choose nursing?
An honest, personal reason and what you enjoy about caring for patients.
2. What are normal adult vital signs?
Temperature about 36.5 to 37.5 °C, pulse 60 to 100 per minute, respiration 12 to 20 per minute, BP around 120/80 mmHg, SpO₂ 95 to 100%.
3. How do you prevent hospital-acquired infections?
Hand hygiene at the five moments, PPE, aseptic technique, clean equipment and correct waste segregation.
4. What are the rights of medication administration?
Right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, right time, and right documentation.
5. What do you do if you make a medication error?
Check the patient, inform the doctor and senior nurse at once, monitor closely and report it. Never hide it.
6. How is biomedical waste segregated?
Yellow for anatomical and soiled waste, red for contaminated plastics, white puncture-proof containers for sharps, blue for glass.
7. Several patients need you at once. How do you prioritise?
Airway, breathing and circulation first, then by urgency. Ask for help early.
8. A patient refuses medicine. What do you do?
Ask why, explain simply, inform the doctor and document the refusal.
9. A patient’s family is angry. What do you do?
Listen calmly, explain what you can, involve the doctor or in-charge, and keep the patient’s privacy.
10. How do you hand over at the end of a shift?
Use SBAR: situation, background, assessment and recommendation, ideally at the bedside.
11. What are the steps of adult CPR?
Check response and breathing, call for help, 30 compressions to 2 breaths at 100 to 120 a minute, 5 to 6 cm deep, and use an AED when it arrives.
12. Are you comfortable with night shifts and rotations?
Answer honestly and say which departments you have worked in.
Before the interview
- Read the job description twice and match two of your examples to what it asks for.
- Keep printed copies of your resume, ID proof and certificates ready, even for online rounds.
- Know your current CTC, expected salary and notice period. Check typical pay in our salary guide, and compare offers with the in-hand salary calculator.
- Genuine employers never ask you to pay for an interview, training kit or joining. Report anyone who does.