Discussion Question: 1 and 2
DISCUSSION 1
Cultural theorist Campinha-Bacote describes cultural competency as a continuum, which implies continual growth and development (Kersey-Matusiak, 2019).
Discuss the following:
What is cultural competence?
• Are there steps nurses can take to achieve it?
• How does it differ from cultural humility?
• Briefly describe how a lack of cultural sensitivity may impact patients’ health and well-being and their future encounters with the healthcare system.
• Why is it more important to focus on cultural humility rather than achieving cultural competence?
Discussion 2
Discussion Question:
In recent years, nurses have been fired for posting derogatory comments on social media about people who did not look like them. Effective leaders build organizational cultures where employees can thrive in their workplace. Examine your organization’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policy.
Answer these questions:
What policies, if any, exist in your healthcare organization/institution that helps cultivate the skills needed to advance the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion?
• If your organization does not have a DEI policy analyze the DEI policy of another healthcare organization and discuss what policies exist in the healthcare organization/institution that helps cultivate the skills needed to advance the principles of DEI.
• What steps would you take to develop policies you can recommend to your chief nursing officer or chief executive officer?
• What role do you play in eliminating discrimination and horizontal and lateral violence in your workplace?