How to Prepare for Interviews and Develop your Career - Softcover

Carol Forde-Johnston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190862583X ISBN 13: 9781908625830

Publisher: Lantern Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

How to Prepare for Interviews and Develop Your Career is packed with practical advice for nurses and midwives to help you fulfil your career aspirations. Guidance, key tips and case examples are organised in seven steps that help provide the key to positive career development:

• Identify your career options
• Drive your own career development
• Support others and influence change
• Complete a strong application and personal statement
• Prepare for interviews by creating an interview plan
• Deal positively with challenges
• Make your achievements stand out

Carol Forde-Johnston is Recruitment and Retention Lead in a large NHS Trust and has more than 30 years’ experience as a Registered Nurse and University Lecturer Practitioner. She has drawn on all that experience to write an accessible and practical book that addresses the questions and concerns frequently raised by students and healthcare professionals – and to help you develop your career as a nurse or midwife.

Contents

Step 1: Know your career options and what you need to get there
Step 2: Drive your own development
Step 3: Support others and influence change in your current role
Step 4: Complete a strong application and personal statement
Step 5: Create an interview plan
Step 6: Move forward positively from challenges
Index

About this title

About the Author

Carol Forde-Johnston (RGN, BSc (Hons), PGDip, RNT and MSc) is a Divisional Recruitment and Retention Lead in the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Her role involves leading recruitment and retention initiatives and providing structured career advice to all levels of staff, with a particular focus on supporting newly qualified nurses and international nurses. Carol qualified as a registered nurse in 1989 at Coventry School of Nursing and went on to specialise in neurosciences. She worked for 20 years as a lecturer practitioner, a joint appointment between Oxford Brookes University and the local NHS hospital Trust, integrating research, education and clinical practice, and leading a third year nursing degree module and supporting nursing apprenticeships. Carol has published numerous articles relating to education and practice development in nursing and medical journals.

Carol has also been involved in patient improvement initiatives and collaborated with Oxford University on a staff-led quality improvement project to prevent inpatient hospital falls. She passionate about developing and supporting staff and student nurses to improve their confidence and fulfil their future aspirations and is currently studying for a PhD in nursing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lantern Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190862583X
• ISBN 13: 9781908625830
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226