Pro practiceNurse Unit Manager (Intensive Care) practice interview
Intensive care staffing, deterioration, bed decisions, equipment readiness and a strong safety culture. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
A Pro practice interview, on the Pro plan from ₦5,000 a month billed yearly, or on Premium.
- Lead
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This interview focuses on leading an intensive care nursing team through high acuity, limited capacity and emotionally difficult work. The panel wants a manager who combines credible bedside judgement with fair staffing, strong controls and respectful communication.
How to prepare
- Review how you match nurse competence and workload to patient acuity.
- Prepare an example of an escalation that protected a deteriorating patient.
- Think through fair intensive care bed decisions and how you communicate them.
- Prepare a quality improvement example based on an incident, audit or recurring risk.
- Check the official Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria site for current licence and professional requirements.
Common mistakes
- Allocating staff by headcount without considering competence and patient acuity.
- Accepting delayed escalation when a patient is deteriorating.
- Responding to an incident with blame before understanding contributing factors.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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