Themes

We received a range of further questions from those who entered the prize, as well as from our judges. These are arranged by theme.

Care

• What does holistic care mean to you? How would you apply that when caring for others?
• Can a robot care?
• What would you prefer, access to care (at the expense of care quality) or good care (at the expense of access to care)? Why?
• What does good patient care mean to you?
• If you had a magic wand, what would you do to improve the experience of your resident, patient, client?

Challenging circumstances

• What would you do if you saw a patient not receiving high quality care?
• In the health care care industry, you’ll  often encounter stressful and emotionally demanding situations.  How do you cope with stress, maintain your own well being, and ensure you continue to provide high quality care to clients or patients during challenging times?
• You are exhausted but there are still important care tasks to complete. How do you decide whether you delay their provision so that you can take care of yourself or push ahead to ensure timely delivery?
• A care task needs your immediate attention. A patient’s wellbeing is at stake. The request came in, however, a minute after the cutoff time. How do you decide whether to delegate the task to your colleague who is coming on or to yourself in the morning?

Health

• What do you think gives people a good life?
• Tell us how you would motivate a team who had compassion fatigue?
• What is the role of the community someone lives in, in keeping them well?

Working with others

• How would you work with others outside of your specialty/division to ensure you are delivering what is best for the patients?
• How would you handle sensitive conversations with a patient or colleague?
• What is one thing you would do every day to better understand those you are working with or working for?

Working with patients

• Imagine you meet a patient who has the exact same health problem as your last patient to the very last detail.
• However, this patient does not agree with any of your recommendations (unlike the previous patient). What do you do?
• How would you know what is most important for a patient?
• How would you work with others to meet a patient’s needs?
• Can you describe a situation where you demonstrated empathy and compassion while supporting someone who was facing a difficult health or social challenge? What was the outcome and how did it affect you personally?
• Do you think people should be involved in co-designing of the service they use within health care, and how can we do this well?

Your life

• Tell me what brings meaning to your life?
• Who do you care for?
• What gives your life meaning and purpose?
• What do you most dislike about yourself?