conducted to determine the effects of diversity in healthcare administration. Diverse leadership is associated with improved patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes, reaching strategic goals, and successful decision making. The individuals who responded believed that minority leadership gaps could be closed with positive diversity gaps and giving equal consideration for leadership positions to all applicants. In addition, although diverse candidates for healthcare leadership have grown over the past
Daily, healthcare workers are exposed to individuals who are different from themselves. According to Engbretson (2016), every human being shares DNA that is 99.9% identical. However, diversity and uniqueness are undeniably found in everyone. In my own nursing practice and personal life, I have experienced and witnessed judgements, prejudices, and stereotyping. To truly appreciate the differences that each person contains is to understand that unique differences do exist between people. Because everyone
Growing knowledge in studies of nursing theory is applied daily in healthcare. Nursing theories provide structure and organization in nursing practices that allow collection of data. Definition and clarification are provided for nursing practices and allow purposes to set the nursing profession separate from other professions. Nursing theories impact design, delivery, and evaluation in direct and indirect healthcare settings. One goal for designing nursing theories is to provide foundation for
Healthcare is an essential factor regardless the country. A significant part of a country’s resources are allocated for healthcare. Healthcare is one of the top three financial concerns. The average percentage of the world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) spent on healthcare has grown from 10.1 in 2011 to 10.2 in 2012, while the highest percentile hit 10.7 in 2009. Despite the dip, an increase is seen in recent years (Health expenditure, total). Taxes, insurance and costs will increase with the rise
leadership in electronics and electrical engineering. Siemens has experienced significant restructuring in recent years, including divestments, acquisitions and reorganization of divisions. Siemens has three main business sectors: Industry, Energy and Healthcare and it has with a total of 15 divisions (Barclay, 2000). Worldwide Siemens and its subsidiaries employ approximately 420,800 people in nearly 190 countries and reported global revenue of 76.651 billion Euros as of 2009. Siemens AG is listed on the
consideration. According to Leininger there are many benefits to gathering cultural information from the patient to use in treating the patient. It helps to understand culturally how patients deal with illness and death. Also, there is a lot of diversity in the work area so being knowledgeable of the different cultures could help in strengthening the nurse-patient relationship. Lastly, having cultural background on the patient could help nurses be open-minded when treating the patient non-traditionally
territory with clear borders. Diversity, which is the involvement of each and every person exhibiting more than one colour, national origin, religion, sexuality, etc, is present in among every individual, let alone nation-states. In this essay, I will be scoping conflict to violent conflict where military troops are involved in a civil war and diversity to ethnical diversity. Therefore, I will be exploring if ethnically diverse Nation-states can embrace its diversity and show respect for each other
validity. Diversity Climate scale was developed by Kossek and Zonia (1993) which contains 20 items for 4 factors. It measures efforts to promote diversity, attitudes towards qualifications of racioethnic minorities, attitudes toward women qualifications, department support for women, and department support for racio-ethnic minorities. This scale does not measure the secondary level of diversity or thought, rendering it less effective. Hegarty and Dalton (1995) developed Organizational Diversity Inventory
general healthcare quality improvement programs (eg. pay for performance and quality reporting) on racial and ethnic healthcare disparities. Reference: • Robin M. Weinick and Romana Hasnain-Wynia. Quality Improvement Efforts Under Health Reform: How To Ensure That They Help Reduce Disparities --Not Increase Them. Health Affairs, 30, no.10 (2011):1837-1843. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0617 The three possible interventions to address the potential negative consequences of general healthcare quality
Our class lecture on diversity was very informative the lecture went over the fundamental understanding of race, class, and gender as well as social behaviors. Understanding differences in one another helps us all to recognize and appreciate the differences within each of us. Recognizing that we have similar interests or beliefs can encourage better behavior and promote people to even perhaps be more patient with one another. Diversity can be defined as people coming together from different races