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How does the community health nurse recognize bias, stereotypes, and implicit bias within the community? How should the nurse address these concepts to ensure health promotion activities are culturally competent? Propose strategies that you can employ to reduce cultural dissonance and bias to deliver culturally competent care. Include an evidence-based article that address the cultural issue. Cite and reference the article in APA format.
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Recognizing Bias, Stereotypes, and Implicit Bias Within the Community.
Implicit bias and stereotypes refer to the unconscious attitudes that negatively affect the medical evaluation based on outside characteristics and features such as gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation (FitzGerald & Hurst, 2017). Evidence suggests that healthcare professionals, such as the community health nurses, show the same levels of implicit bias and stereotypes as the general population. Similarly, studies on the likely influence of the attitudes on the diagnosis and treatment indicate that some patients have been accorded lower standards of health care. Therefore, community health nurses can recognize implicit bias through negative manifestations in patient care. Nurses with implicit biases may conduct inadequate assessments on some patients and administer inappropriate diagnostic and treatment decisions (FitzGerald & Hurst, 2017). Further, the nurse and the patients will spend less time in patient care and efforts in therapeutic relationships, which can adversely affect the patient’s response to the treatments.
Nevertheless, there are various approaches nurses could use in addressing the existing stereotypes and implicit biases to promote culturally sound health activities. Community health nurses should participate in the cultural assessment trainings to acquire knowledge and skills that boost one’s awareness of various cultures (FitzGerald & Hurst, 2017). Additionally, the nurse can work on ways to improve the communication and break the language barrier that often hinders interactions with the patients, through direct engagements and cultural interactions. Further, Nurses should have the ability to understand the patient’s values and belief systems to create an effective relationship based on trust and mutual respect.
Similarly, nurses have adopted strategies such as creating personal awareness by looking into the inner belief and values that can lead to cultural dissonance and bias (FitzGerald & Hurst, 2017). Putting to check the negative feelings is the first initiative to laying a lasting therapeutic relationship with the patient. Moreover, nurses can employ empathy while caring for the patient, which involves relating to the patient’s feelings to provide an adequate and timely medical response (FitzGerald & Hurst, 2017). Lastly, nurses can participate in raising awareness about bias and stereotypes during the daily interactions and, in effect, strengthened the knowledge base leading to quality and equitable health care.
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FitzGerald, C., & Hurst, S. (2017). Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review. BMC medical ethics, 18(1), 19.
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Communication Plan for an Inpatient Unit to Evaluate the Impact of Transformational Leadership Style Compared to Other Leader Styles such as Bureaucratic and Laissez-Faire Leadership in Nurse Engagement, Retention, and Team Member Satisfaction Over the Course of One Year
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