12-01-09
Does your hospital or School of Nursing offer any education/CME’s on Diversity?
By Phoebe Taylor
DiversityNursing.com
12/01/2009
The UNC Healthcare System is an example of an organization that addresses the Diversity within its nursing workforce at an impressive level. At the UNC Healthcare System, Diversity has taken a primary role in the driver seat of the organization through the creation of their Nursing Diversity Council. As part of their Shared Governance Model, the Diversity Council has taken a lead role in forming the future of the nursing staff at UNC.
The Nursing Diversity Council at the UNC Healthcare System
The Nursing Diversity Council provides support for the development and implementation of diversity initiatives within nursing, and works to foster a respectful, culturally appropriate environment for patients, families and staff members.
The purpose of the Nursing Diversity Council is to:
- Promote a respectful health care environment that values the incorporation of culturally relevant care for our patients and their families.
- Establish yearly goals for diversity initiatives.
- Collaborate with the Professional Development Council to provide a framework for the educational plan in regards to diversity initiatives.
- Develop policies and procedures aligned with the goals and initiatives of the Council.
- Integrate the diversity initiatives with the hospital plan.
- Review data (such as the Employee Opinion Survey, Press Ganey survey, hospital and patient demographics, etc) to assess efficacy of diversity initiatives and incorporate the data to develop action plans.
Membership shall include the following:
- 1 Director
- 3 Clinical Nurse Managers
- 2 Nurse Educators
- 1 staff nurse representative from each of the clinical service areas:
- Surgery Services
- Oncology
- Heart Center
- Medicine Services
- Women’s Hospital
- Children’s Hospital
- Surgical Services
- Psychiatry
- Rehab
- Emergency Department/ Air Care
- At- large representative from the procedural areas
- At- large representative from the outpatient clinic areas
- Other Members:
- HR representative
- Nurse Recruitment representative
- Pastoral Care representative
5 Comments on “Does your hospital or School of Nursing offer any education/CME’s on Diversity?”
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works for me
12-03-09 » 8:45 am »
nice
12-14-09 » 7:03 pm »
good stuff
12-29-09 » 5:36 pm »
At University of Masssachusetts-Lowell, there is a “Bring Diversity to Nursing” Program. I am the diversity support services coordinator. Below are the project initiatives and goals for the program.
The BDN project seeks to recruit, retain and graduate high-quality minority and economically disadvantaged nursing students. The project activities center on four areas: pre-entry initiatives, rigorous retention efforts, faculty and community support and mentoring, and continued feedback and monitoring.
With the goal of assisting qualified minority/disadvantaged students in becoming professional nurses, the BDN project provides access for minority and/or disadvantaged students into the nursing profession through pre-entry and recruitment efforts that reach out to local middle and high schools; rigorous retention efforts that provide a tailored college educational experience that includes a well-coordinated mentoring system, counseling services, technology and financial support.
The BDN objectives are to: (1) improve access to the nursing profession by recruiting minority and disadvantaged students through pre-entry initiatives at the middle and high school levels, (2) increase culturally responsive and high quality health care by graduating a diverse nurse who provides nursing services to diverse populations, (3) demonstrate the efficacy of a rigorous student nurse retention program, (4) enhance faculty knowledge of and sensitivity to cultural competency, student support, and diversity in under-represented, at-risk student, and (5) provide stipends, scholarships, and educational technologies to qualified minority/disadvantaged students who are accepted to and successfully progress in the BDN project.
01-21-10 » 1:53 pm »
never did
01-24-10 » 11:41 am »