Diversity in Healthcare

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1 Diversity in Healthcare Yasmine Kanan Bachelor’s in healthcare administration, Grand Canyon University HCA 455 Professor Delio

2 Introduction Diversity in healthcare is extremely crucial regarding quality care for patients and building a comfortable and safe workplace. It is important that healthcare organizations improve diversity to ensure that people of all socioeconomic backgrounds, races, ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, religions, and genders are represented in the healthcare workforce (Mozifaripour, 2023). Diversity in healthcare also positively impacts the environment of the organization, individual patients, and the community itself. Diversity in Healthcare Diversity is defined as the practice of including people from different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, religion, race, etc. Having a diverse demographic in a healthcare organization positively impacts the industry by allowing both staff and patients feel safe and understood. An accepting environment that is brought by diversity allows professionals to give quality care to their patients by creating a safe environment and patients can be well taken care of. Cultural competence in healthcare is a set of behaviors, knowledge, and skills that help administrators and practitioners respond to cultural issues relating to patients (Mozafaripour, 2023). For example, when an employee is working with patients from a different cultural background, they recognize that and must utilize the tools to respect the patient’s values. This helps administrators and other healthcare professionals give the best of care to their patients. That is why diversity in healthcare is important and can positively impact the environment and workplace. It has been proven that individuals with diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds have a more difficult time such as lack of healthcare and access to high quality care. It is also proven that people with color experience greater incidence and more cases of severe diseases compared to white people in the United States, (Jayoung Kim, 2020). These

3 disparities of racial inequality that has changed over generations has made access to healthcare more difficult. Accepting of all race and color will help eliminate these disparities and struggles that these minorities face and create an equal environment. In addition, diverse religions and spiritual beliefs can impact patient experience and influence their decisions regarding treatment. For example, depending on their religion, patients may address their medical issues differently based on their teachings and traditions. Therefore, it is important that healthcare professionals understand this and have the tools to understand and respect this. That is why accepting of diversity in the workplace is important and positively impacts both the patients and organization. Cultural Competence Cultural competence is the ability of an individual to understand and respect values, attitudes, beliefs, and more that differ across different cultures. Cultural competence provides many different factors when it comes to organizational behavior. These factors include valuing diversity, having the capacity for cultural assessment, being conscious of the dynamics when cultures interact, and having culture knowledge.. Having a set of values and principles, demonstrating behavior, attitudes, policies, and structures enables staff in an organization to work effectively cross culturally (Green & Carrillo, 2002). When having the capacity to value diversity, conduct self-assessment, manage dynamic differences, and adapt to diversity allows the community and environment to feel safe. Administrators can implement policy making, administration that positively affects consumers, families, and communities. Cultural competence allows an individual to honor and respect different beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that one might come across. Diversity Management

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