let s be lefties for a day socs350n
Let’s Be Lefties for a Day!
Sunjoo Lee
Chamberlain College of Nursing
SOCS 350N: Cultural Diversity in Profession
Spring A, 2014
Let’s Be Lefties for a Day! The understanding of cultural, ethnic, and gender difference in managers and professionals in business setting is important. As a nurse in the hospital, it is essential for me to understand and respond to different culture, ethnic and gender issues. Many patients are from different cultures and ethnic groups, especially there are many cases of issues on rising diverse minority populations and it is becoming more complicated issues in the last decade in many different areas, for example: legal, social, medical, education and financial areas. Many institutions and professionals have become more sensitive to cultural, ethnic and gender issues than ever before. Many hospitals have educational material in many different languages and have translation services and telephones to help those who uses sign languages and for the patients with limited English to communicate and give better care and treatment. In the hospitals, rehabilitation and other short term and long term care facilities manager and charge nurses also try to make an assignments on the floor nurses according to patients need, for an example, if a patient is from a particular culture or ethnic group, a nurse who will be assigned to that patient will be with similar culture and ethnic group unless patient refuses. This is done to promote better communication and better treatment outcome and less conflict between the care giver and the client. Another example for understanding the importance in cultural diversity is when the American Arab female or her family request for female nurse or doctor to take care of her instead of male nurse or male doctor, it is hospital’s responsibility to respect that request and that patient’s cultural belief and practice as much as possible. When a person or a managers on professional setting is not competent in
Sunjoo Lee
Chamberlain College of Nursing
SOCS 350N: Cultural Diversity in Profession
Spring A, 2014
Let’s Be Lefties for a Day! The understanding of cultural, ethnic, and gender difference in managers and professionals in business setting is important. As a nurse in the hospital, it is essential for me to understand and respond to different culture, ethnic and gender issues. Many patients are from different cultures and ethnic groups, especially there are many cases of issues on rising diverse minority populations and it is becoming more complicated issues in the last decade in many different areas, for example: legal, social, medical, education and financial areas. Many institutions and professionals have become more sensitive to cultural, ethnic and gender issues than ever before. Many hospitals have educational material in many different languages and have translation services and telephones to help those who uses sign languages and for the patients with limited English to communicate and give better care and treatment. In the hospitals, rehabilitation and other short term and long term care facilities manager and charge nurses also try to make an assignments on the floor nurses according to patients need, for an example, if a patient is from a particular culture or ethnic group, a nurse who will be assigned to that patient will be with similar culture and ethnic group unless patient refuses. This is done to promote better communication and better treatment outcome and less conflict between the care giver and the client. Another example for understanding the importance in cultural diversity is when the American Arab female or her family request for female nurse or doctor to take care of her instead of male nurse or male doctor, it is hospital’s responsibility to respect that request and that patient’s cultural belief and practice as much as possible. When a person or a managers on professional setting is not competent in