Coventry Nursing Interview Questions & Tips

You will need BCC at A Level, with no specific subjects being preferred. However, General Studies is not accepted. You may have the equivalent in BTEC or IB. At GCSE, you must have 5 GCSEs graded at C or higher, to include English Language, Mathematics, and a Science. You must have your degree certificates ready to show at the interview.

Applicants who rank well in the academic scoring are invited to attend a ‘selection event’ which will provide detailed information about the course, and assess your aptitude through an interview and a short written exam. Coventry explains that their assessment – including the interview – uses a values based recruitment approach. This means that they are specifically looking for candidates with the appropriate values to work in an MDT (multi disciplinary team) with the goal of delivering excellent patient care.

Coventry is ranked in the top 5 universities for Nursing in the UK according to the Guardian University Guide 2020. Coventry places an emphasis on using the latest technology to role play, and on the use of scenarios to aid learning. They state that this approach helps to contextualise the information that you learn.

Students at Coventry benefit from mock wards that let you study a patient’s full journey from admission to discharge, a mock ambulance, and a clinical skills centre that has up-to-date equipment and simulators. There is also a full-size mock operating theatre, containing scrub sinks and theatre lights.

Coventry’s course is designed as a spiral – meaning that the core competencies you develop are built up and added to throughout the degree. The ‘core’ of the spiral is patient assessment. There is an emphasis on inter-professional learning, meaning that you will have the opportunity to interact with, learn from, and learn with other health and social care students. This is a great chance to understand the working environment that you will be a part of in future.