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