About Vorna
Built for nurses, by people who care about them.
Vorna started with a nurse in our team's family who struggled to translate exceptional clinical skills into interview performance. She knew her job. She just hadn't practiced the conversation.
Where it came from
We watched a nurse with years of solid floor experience get repeatedly passed over for ICU positions — not because she wasn't capable, but because she had never practiced articulating her clinical reasoning under pressure. She knew the SBAR framework. She'd escalated deteriorating patients correctly hundreds of times. She just hadn't done it in an interview room.
We then spent months speaking directly with nurses on Reddit and nursing communities — new grads terrified of their first hospital interviews, experienced nurses switching specialties who felt like imposters, and ICU candidates who knew the clinical work but not the conversation around it. The pattern was consistent: the problem wasn't competence, it was practice.
Every generic interview prep tool we found asked the same boilerplate questions and gave the same generic feedback. None of them knew what SBAR was. None of them understood that an ICU interview and a med-surg interview require fundamentally different preparation. So we built Vorna.
What we believe
Specificity over generics
Generic interview prep tools ask "tell me about a time you showed leadership." Nursing interviewers ask about patient deterioration, physician disagreements, and clinical prioritisation under pressure. Vorna generates questions specific to the unit, the role, and the experience level — because an ICU interview and a med-surg interview are not the same thing.
Safety is not a feature
In nursing, a high score with an unsafe clinical answer is worse than a low score with an honest one. Vorna flags clinical safety concerns in feedback separately from communication scores. If a candidate describes ignoring a deteriorating patient to manage time, that gets named — not smoothed over with a 6.5 out of 10.
New grads and specialty switchers deserve specific help
Nurses changing specialties often know more than they think — they just don't know how to frame their existing skills for the target unit. Vorna specifically identifies transferable skills and shows candidates how to bridge their experience, rather than writing improved answers that only a veteran nurse could plausibly give.
Honest feedback, coaching tone
Nurses face enough anxiety around interviews without a tool that either softens everything into meaningless praise or presents clinical corrections like a disciplinary review. Vorna aims to be direct without being harsh — the same register a good preceptor uses.
What Vorna is not
A generic interview bot rebranded for healthcare. Every question is generated around the specific role, unit type, and experience level of the candidate.
A replacement for real interview experience. Vorna can't replicate nerves, room dynamics, or what a specific hiring manager at a specific hospital values. It can make sure clinical reasoning and structure are second nature before that moment arrives.
A tool that tells you what you want to hear. If an answer describes an unsafe clinical approach, that gets named. Vorna's job is to get you hired into a role you're genuinely ready for.
The name
Vorna has no direct meaning in any major language — that's intentional. We started with nursing because that's where the need is most acute and most underserved by existing tools. Finance, technology, and other fields are on the roadmap. The name needed to be able to travel with us.
Who built this
A small team, including a nurse who has been involved from the beginning — reviewing questions, testing feedback quality, and making sure the clinical detail is grounded in how nursing interviews actually work. We don't have a clinical advisory board or a healthcare division. We have direct relationships with nurses who tell us when something is wrong, and we fix it.