An OB manager is interviewing a registered nurse for a labor and delivery position. The manager says to the interviewee, ?Tell me about the most challenging delivery experience in your nursing career
? The manager learns the candidate has experienced several challenges that required quick action. The manager is impressed by the candidate?s: 1. Adaptability.
2. Negotiation skills.
3. Initiative.
4. Decision-making skills.
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Explanation: 1. Decision-making skills provide the interviewer with information about the nurse?s thought
process in managing a difficult or challenging situation. Adaptability focuses on how an
experience has affected the nurse. Negotiation skills provide information as to how the nurse
was able to compromise in a situation. Initiative provides the interviewer with information as
to the nurse?s resourcefulness.
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