Diversity Of The Health Care System

to adopt multiculturalism as a national policy (Government of Canada, 2012). Since then, Canadians have prided themselves on being accepting of cultural diversity and recognizing equal rights for all citizens, regardless of country of origin (Government of Canada, 2012). However, cultural diversity presents challenges for the health care system as people of various cultures have different expectations and requirements of healthcare (De Miao & Kemp, 2010). This is not an issue that is unique to Canada

Diversity Report on Northwell Health I. Introduction New York is one of the most diverse cities in the world. There are many cultures, races; languages mixed together creating “culturally diverse pot”. “Diversity is the existence of a wide variety of cultures and subcultures represented within a society” (CCN, 2016). For this project I selected Northwell Health System to audit because there are many offices and clinics around area where I live (it is extremely diverse area) and I decided to know

Paper-Cultural Diversity within health Care Belinda Banks May 30, 2016 UMUC HCAD 660-220 Summer 2016 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to share research information of health care organizations who are experiencing issues with Cultural Diversity. The information shared will help to support health care systems as they continuously work towards reducing health care disparities

acute care, but they nevertheless can go to any emergency room and be treated. But the inability to pay for chronic care can be, in many cases, an absolute bar to securing that care. In Canada and in Germany, accessibility in the “ability to afford” sense is far

century suggests that minorities receive worse quality of care in the United States healthcare system when compared to their Caucasian counterparts. For

Improving diversity in health care setting is important in patient care. Cultural competence is approach to enhancing healthcare delivery that has been promoted broadly in recent years. By definition cultural competence in health care describes the ability of systems to provide care to patients with diverse values, beliefs and behaviors, including tailoring delivery to meet patients’ social, cultural, and linguistic needs (Betancourt, Green, & Carrillo, 2002) .The increasing diversity across the

Concept paper By Masereh Jallow Topic: Diversity in Nursing Page 1 Topic: Diversity in Nursing Diversity: The changing demographics and economics of our growing multicultural world, and the long-standing disparities in the health status of people from culturally diverse backgrounds has challenged health care providers and organizations to consider cultural diversity as a priority. Culture is one of the organizing concepts upon which nursing is based and defined

The awareness of the cultural diversity, and defining the ethnocultural in relationship with the health caree practices in the multicultural society has a significant impact among the health care providers. The plan of care provided for the patients that begins with assessment, planning and providing measures and interventions are the key in delivering effective, efficient and high-quality health care. Thus, the knowledge provided by studying the cultural diversity promotes the understanding on the

The Culture diversity theory Providing culturally competent nursing care begins with having basic principle knowledge and effective training us a nursing student. Madeleine Leininger’s Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality defines nursing as a learned scientific and humanistic profession that focuses on patient care, experiences and creative thinking relevant to nursing and health care system. As nurse student in today’s society you will come in contact with a lot of cultural differences

duties to provide ethical, safe care for the patients they look after. The patient population is becoming increasingly diverse and nurses need to understand and learn how to deal with the diversity. All of our patients are different and will need different care. Accommodating diversity will be easier with knowledge and experience and will make a difference in how we provide that care. If nurses can work together, we can make a difference in the health care system by not making assumptions, learning