Ethical Dilemma Paper

Reading your response to this case you brought up an interesting topic of the hiring or recruitment process not being able to develop a good insight into a person’s ethical competence and behavior well enough versus during performance evaluations. Nurses make ethical decisions as part of their nursing requirement and that is also a reason for completing background checks from past employers. It helps to find out how a person's professionalism and ethical decision-making competence stand up to other candidates. According to Cerit and Dinc (2013), experience, cultural background, autonomy and competency are factors that affect how a nurse responds to ethical problems and their professional conduct. However, even though nurses are expected to

and face ethical problems in practice, most are not doing so at expected levels. Some nurses get too comfortable with certain settings, around certain people and forget they must always be accountable and responsible for their actions. It is important for the hire managers to conduct interviews that involve questions that ask for clarification if necessary, and find out about the person's interpersonal and collaboration skills. Asking the who, what, when, where, why type of questions in interviews helps to expand thoughts and provides a flow to the conversation. A good common interview question that Sam should have answered: tell me about a situation where you made a mistake and how did you fix it (Registered Nursing.org, 2016)? This would open up dialogue to find how his thought process on fixing mistakes and if it was appropriate. How would you answer this interview question?