Diversity in the Workplace Diversity in the Workplace I have this image of America and the bronze plaque at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore”. We are a country of immigrates, built on the ideals, culture, and inclusion of our differences. Our profession should reflect the inclusive society in which America is built on. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance
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Standards of Care NUR 531 Emerging Standards of Care The impact of the varying demographics and the emergent multicultural humanity emphasizes the significance of cultural competence for the provision of quality care in this diverse society. Identifying and comprehending the beliefs, customs, practices, and values of a culture is essential for nurses and health care providers. Beyond the racial and ethnic group, classification that usually comes to mind with discussion of cultural diversity, other
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Culturally Competent Care NUR/531 University of Phoenix Emerging Standards of Care: Cultural Competence The current U.S. population exhibits unparalleled sociocultural and ethnic diversity, yet the nursing workforce fails to reflect the current state of the nation’s diversity. According to Clark
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Diversity in the Nursing Environment Robin Glunt RN SOC/315 December 12, 2011 Jenel Cavazos Diversity in the Nursing Environment Diversity is a fact of the nursing environment in terms of relationships with colleagues and with patients. Nurses are required to work with and take care of individuals from a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. This can be both a challenge and an enriching experience. In nursing all dimensions of cultural diversity are experienced regularly including the
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Diversity in The Workplace Lori Godsey Walden University NURS 3001, Section 08, Issues and Trends in Nursing March 24, 2013 The Problem Healthcare leaders acknowledge that workplace diversity and cultural competence are important to providing health services, as cited by (Davis, 1998). Perceptions
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Leininger’s Theory of Cultural Care Diversity and Universality (Debbies Portion) Major concepts essential to this theory. * Leiningers theory is culturally specific and congruent care “focused on culture care preservation, accommodations, or repatterning according to the patients’ needs” (Allison, 2006, p. 61). * The theory recognizes generic or folk care as well as professional nursing care. as a new kind of nursing in the 1950’s that focused on human beings in a multicultural world.
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Emerging Standards of Care Kassandra Snow NUR 531 May 25th, 2015 Greg Friesz Emerging Standards of Care In the United States, it is no secret that there are many differing cultures, ethnicities, religious and racial in an abundance. In the nursing field, we see many differing cultural diversities on a daily basis. Racial, religious, and ethnic differences are mostly easy to spot in the health care world. These differences are readily discussed in nursing education, and education is given
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Emerging Standards of Care Paper Ron Perkins NUR/531 December 23, 2013 Jane Jacks Emerging Standards of Care Paper In nursing, we care for patients from a variety of cultures and backgrounds. This diversity is dependent on location, population, and nursing specialty and may change at any point. In order to properly provide culturally competent care, we must be educated about the individual culture needs and limitations. It's also important to be mentally open to looking beyond our personal
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Hence, through this essay the concepts of culture, race and ethnicity will be explored. Moreover, how to face these challenges during practice developing transcultural and cross-cultural communication and showing professionalism, cultural competence and cultural response will be considered followed by two cultural issues, nursing culture and patient culture. Culture is a set of presumptions, values, ideas, expectations, meanings, norms and practices that have been transmitted and acquired throughout
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Transcultural nursing care/Culture Care Diversity and Universality Theory. Quynh Doan SCF- RN-BSN progrgram •Born in Sutton, Nebraska on July 13, 1925 •received her diploma in nursing from St. Anthony’s School of Nursing in Denver, Colorado in 1948 In 1950 •She earned her BS from St. Scholastica (Benedictine College) in Atchison, Kansas •She earned an M.S. in psychiatric and mental health nursing from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1954. •She received
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