After working at your first RN job for 6 months, you are asked to be part of the hiring committee that will interview and hire RNs for two open positions. Having vacancies on your unit means that everyone is working extra shifts and it is important that the positions be filled quickly. There are a dozen applicants. The top six are identified, and interviews are scheduled. There will be four people from the committee at each interview. Interviews go well and the committee has determined the top two candidates who are equally qualified. When discussing the two candidates, at a meeting of the hiring committee, your supervisor feels that you should not hire one of the candidates because she alluded to the fact that she has diabetes and people with diabetes get sick a lot. She feels the candidate will be unreliable and unable to do her share of the work on the unit. QUESTIONS:
How do you feel about your supervisor’s suggestion?
What are the ethical implications?
Are there any legal implications?
What are your personal feelings?
Do you agree with your supervisor?
The top two candidates accepted the positions offered them and were hired immediately. Both were a good fit for the unit, and after orientation was complete, they were able to reduce the strain the staff was feeling from the extra shifts. One of the new employees was diabetic and had been since she was 11 years old. She was very knowledgeable and had very good control of her diabetes. She became a resource for the entire unit related to diabetes education and care. The other new employee had relocated to take this position. Her personal situation was very complicated, and she was often late to work or would have multiple personal phone calls during the shift. She was a good nurse but had difficulty focusing on her job when things in her personal life seemed to be out of control. Within 6 months, she quit and moved back to the town from which she had relocated.
QUESTIONS:
1. In this situation, the nurse with diabetes was managing her disease well. If that were not the case what could the nursing supervisor do to work with the nurse to help her be successful in her new position?
2. Personal bias could have prevented the hiring of a nurse that turned out to be an asset to the unit. What personal biases do you have that may prevent you from interacting fairly with patients or coworkers?
3. How can you minimize the impact of these biases?
The paper must be typed in 7th edition APA format with a minimum of 1000 words (excluding first and references page) with a minimum of 4 evidence-based references. Make sure references are used according to 7-edition APA guidelines and electronic references must be from reliable sources.
