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Designing an Interview Guide You are a new evening charge nurse on a pediatric floor in an acute care hospital. This supervisor has asked you to interview two applicants who will be graduating from nursing school in 3 months. Your supervisor believes that they both are qualified. Because the avail- able position is on your shift, she wants you to make the final hiring decision. You feel a great responsibility to be fair especially because you know both of these can- didates personally, You took a chemistry course with one of them and an anatomy class with the how rigorous your aca- demic program was and feel that they would each be well qualified. You decide to develop an interview guide and several case scenarios to use in interview- ing each applicant. You base the interview guide questions and the case scenarios on your own experience on qualities that you feel a new registered nurse needs have to be able to be successful in your unit. ASSIGNMENT: Write an interview guide consisting of at least 12 questions specific to your unit and de- velop two case scenarios for nursing decision making that will allow you to determine which of these two new graduates to recommend for hire. Did your personal values play in your decision?