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Chapter 11

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

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Chapter 11

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  1. Chapter 11 Diversity

  2. 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

  3. Diversity • Culture • Beliefs, values, norms, and folkways of a specific group • Race • Similar biologic variations

  4. Diversity • Ethnicity • Socially driven • Self-identification and sense of belonging

  5. Acculturation • Adopting new behaviors of the immediate culture • Results in new values, knowledge, or belief sets shared by all members • Assimilation

  6. Ways in Which People Differ

  7. Theorists • Madeline Leininger • Transcultural Nursing Theory • Giger and Davidhizar • Transcultural Assessment Model • Spector • Cultural Heritage Model

  8. Race, Nursing, and Society

  9. Race, Nursing, and Society

  10. Men to Women

  11. 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

  12. 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)

  13. Aging Nursing Workforce • GAO • 2010 • Percentage of nurses over age 50 will be approximately 40 percent of the total nursing workforce

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