Venting- Pre-Employment Medication Test plus so much more!

As if it wasn't hard enough for New Grads to get a job nowadays..

This morning I had an interview for a New Grad RN position at a local hospital. They told me in advance that there would be a short nursing exam before the interview that focused mostly on medication administration, etc. This is pretty standard for my area, so I was totally fine and felt ready for this. It can't be any harder than the NCLEX, right?

Hahaha, boy was I wrong.

It was way harder than the NCLEX (at least the 80 questions that I got on my NCLEX, anyways)! About 1/3 of the exam was just reading/interpreting/naming/giving all interventions for ECG's. And not just the easy ones like vfib, asystole, and sinus tach..i think every degree of heart block was on there, I could only recognize complete heart block and guessed on the others (and then there were some where the answer was to check lead placement b/c the rhythm was uninterpretable). And this position wasn't on a cardiac/tele/ICU unit either, and didn't require Tele experience or ACLS, so I was totally thrown for a loop on this! What the heck??
wow, that is ridiculously hard for a new grad! i feel ya
Well, they shouldn't have any trouble picking one candidate from another, or maybe then, they will. Not too many could have done well on that test. Good luck anyway.