Cultural Diversity among Nurses.

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Cultural Diversity among Nurses
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Cultural Diversity among Nurses
Literature Review
Different work environments have their specific variation factors that inform on both
decisions a nurse makes and the strategies of addressing issues emerging during their rounds.
Among the issues, that a nurse has to consider a different approach every time they initiate a
treatment plan include establishing engagement, decision-making, and selection of treatment
plans that fits the issue at hand. The differences in perception to healthcare, medication, and
follow-up plans are dependent on the cultural differences that the nurse has in relation to the
people they interact with in the hospital setting. For a nurse, cultural diversity offers a more
efficient approach to formulation a connection, relationship, trust, offer education on the
differences in treatment approaches, and some of the alternative approaches the patient prefers to
use in addressing certain inconsistencies in the mode of treatment. For a nurse, identifying with
the variations in cultural practices and beliefs has a huge impact on the way they can be efficient
in their work and level of competency. The push for quality-based care plans makes it more
prudent that nurses distinguish among their patients and the variation in their needs that also has
an impact on the outcome of care provided. The variations among the nurses helps inform on the
decisions that the nurses have to make about treatment and maximizing on recovery and follow-
up care.
Among the factors, nurses have to come to terms with in establishing trust and
communications include perception to healthcare, cultural practices they have, and their personal
lifestyles (Shen, 2015). According to Birkhäuer, et al. (2017), a diversified healthcare
environment in terms of culture has a huge influence on the ability of nurses to be efficient in
their care and practices they integrate into their practice. On the contrary, lack of realization and

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integration of cultural diversity within the healthcare setting makes it hard for a nurse to be
efficient communicators and competent in getting to understand the differences each
environment presents to them as well as the different approaches they have to integrated into the
care plan they are using. Attainment of cultural diversity in the healthcare setting has been
demonstrated to offer significant benefits with some of the main one being allowing the nurse to
develop trust with people they meet, promote empowerment, and safety since they know what is
required of them when it comes to attaining quality care (Papadopoulos, Shea, Taylor, Pezzella,
& Foley, 2016).
Cultural diversity is also one of the approaches nurses get to improve on their
competency within their assigned duties. According to a research by Hart and Mareno (2016),
competency in the provision of care is one of the fundamentals to promoting the ability of a
healthcare giver to be accurate in the services they are offering and increase satisfaction from
both the management and service-delivery perspectives. The competency level of the nurse
extends beyond their skills to offer the best of care or perform a complex surgery on time. It also
includes the ability of the nurse to communicate with their colleagues, understand their
requirements to delivering the best care, and changes to make in promoting the best care
practices in the healthcare environment (Cai, Kunaviktikul, Klunklin, Sripusanapan, & Avant,
2017). Attainment of competency is dependent on the combination of different values/
components, skills, knowledge, and attitudes about different practices and traditions within the
societal and healthcare settings. Each of these components is developed from experience and
exposure to an environment that makes it a necessity to the attainment of nursing goals. The
differences in the societal and healthcare setting often present conflicting perceptions of the way
care is delivered and the outcomes attainable within the defined environments of care. This