Embracing cultural diversity in health care developing cultural competence

Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario. Nursing Best Practices Guidelines Program. (Added Author). Ontario. Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. (Added Author). Canada. Office of Nursing Policy. (Added Author).

Summary: The 21st century brings challenges to Canada that are similar in many ways to those faced by Canadians a hundred years ago. WHile the future promises a less robust rate of population growth than was the case in 1907, much like the era the bulk of our growth will come from immigration. We differ from our early 20th Century colleagues in that the vast majority of those new immigrants - some 80% - will arrive from non-European countries where most citizens are not white. They will be younger on average than most Canadians, and neither English nor French will be their first language. Why this looming shift matters to the nursing profession is plain. These future Canadian citizens will access our health care systemand receive a range of health care services from a variety of health care professionals, many of whom will be nurses. In addition, some of these future Canadians will become the nurses of the next and future generations. They bring with them different cultural norms and traditions, different values and beliefs about health and about illness and its treatment, all of which will influence their views about health care delivery in general, and nursing in particular. This best practice guideline for nurses on cultural diversity provides bold recommendations about actions that can be taken to embrace diversity in the health care work force as part of creating a healthy work environment and a healthy work team. In July of 2003 the Registered Nurse's Association of Ontario (RNAO), with funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, (MOHLTC) working in partnership with Health Canada, Office of Nursing Policy, commenced the development of evidence-based best practice guidelines in order to create healthy work environments for nurses. Just as in clinical decision-making, it is important that those focusing on creating healthy work environments make decisions based on the best evidence possible. The Healthy Work Environments Best Practice Guidelines project is a response to priority needs identified by the Joint provincial nursing committee (JPNC) and the Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee.

Record details

ISBN: 9780920166864
ISBN: 0920166865
Physical Description: electronic
electronic resource
remote
1 electronic text (88 p. : ill.) : digital file.
Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] : Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2007

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General Note:	"April 2007." Cover title. At head of title: RNAO, Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, L'Association des infirmières et infirmiers autorisés de l'Ontario, Nursing Best Practices Guidelines Program. Made possible by funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Developed in partnership with Health Canada, Office of Nursing Policy. Issued as part of the Canadian electronic library documents collection.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-69).
Formatted Contents Note:	Background to the health work environments best practice guidelines project -- Organizing framework for the healthy work environments best practice guidelines project -- Background context of the guideline on embracing cultural diversity in health care: developing cultural competence -- Development of the guideline -- Conceptual framework for embracing cultural diversity in health care: developing cultural competence guideline -- Sources and types of evidence on embracing cultural diversity in health care: developing cultural competence guideline -- Key message and themes from the systematic literature review -- Overall goals and objectives -- Purpose and scope -- How to use this document -- Individual context: best cultural competence practices -- Individual recommendations -- Evidence -- Organizational context: best cultural competence practices for employers and unions -- Recommendations -- Evidence -- External context: best cultural competence practices for academia, governments and regulators, and professional association -- Individual recommendations -- Process for reviewing and updating the healthy work environments best practice guidelines -- Appendix A: glossary of terms -- Appendix B: summary of key models related to cultural competence -- Appendix C: guideline development process -- Appendix D: process for systematic review of the literature completed by Joanna Briggs institute -- Appendix E: tools -- Appendix F: implementation - tips and strategies -- Appendix G: CLAS standards.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.