Post on 04-Jan-2016
Chapter 11
Diversity
Forecast for the RN Workforce ?• Changing demographics
– More need for RNs, LPNs, and MAs
• Changing face of the profession• Issues surrounding shortages of nursing teachers?
• Increased retirements of RNs
Diversity• Culture
– Beliefs, values, norms, and folkways of a specific group
• Race– Similar biologic variations
Diversity• Ethnicity
– Socially driven• Self-identification and sense of belonging
Acculturation • Adopting new behaviors of the immediate culture– Results in new values, knowledge, or belief sets shared by all members
• Assimilation
Ways in Which People Differ
Theorists• Madeline Leininger
– Transcultural Nursing Theory
• Giger and Davidhizar– Transcultural Assessment Model
• Spector– Cultural Heritage Model
Race, Nursing, and Society
Race, Nursing, and Society
Men to Women
Gender Issueswithin the Profession
• Representing 5.4 percent of total RN population
• Seem to veer toward psychiatry, emergency medicine, anesthesia, critical care, and administration
• Gender issues that not only male RNs face, but the profession
Aging Nursing Workforce
• Largest decline in last two decades is in under-30 group of RNs– 25.1 percent (1980) to 9.1 percent (2000)
Aging Nursing Workforce
• GAO • 2010
– Percentage of nurses over age 50 will be approximately 40 percent of the total nursing workforce