Addressing Diversity in Health Care
Diversity among individuals, as well as cultures, provides a challenge for nurses when it comes to delivering meaningful health promotion and illness prevention-based education. How do teaching principles, varied learning styles (for both nurses and patients), and teaching methodologies impact the approach to education? How do health care providers overcome differing points of view regarding health promotion and disease prevention? Provide an example.
Read “Health of the Public,” located on the American Nurses Association website.http://web.archive.org
Read “Healthy People 2020 Framework” located on the Healthy People website.http://www.healthypeop
World Health Organization Explore the World Health Organization website. In particular, familiarize yourself with all sections, paying close attention to those related to disease management and prevention and health promotion. Pay attention to the “Role of the Who in Public Health, Resources and Planning,” as well as data and statistics.http://www.who.int/
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Health care providers need to realize that addressing diversity in health care goes way beyond knowing values, beliefs, practices, and customs of the different ethnic groups. Differences also exist in religious affiliation, gender, sexual orientation, political orientation among others. Health care provider must, therefore, to respect and accommodate the many needs of the different patients they encounter in their practice of providing care…
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