Cultural diversity training: The necessity of cultural competence for health care providers and in nursing practice

Responses to classmates must consist of at least 350 words (not including the greeting and the references), do NOT repeat the same thing your classmate is saying, try to add something of value like a resource, educational information to give to patients, possible bad outcomes associated with the medicines discussed in the case, try to include a sample case you've seen at work and discuss how you feel about how that case was handled. Try to use supportive information such as current Tx guidelines, current research related to the treatment, anything that will enhance learning in the online classroom. The world is becoming more diverse. The US Census Bureau (2010) as cited in Young and Guo (2020) estimates that by 2050, 54% of the population of the US will consist of minorities, the Latino and Hispanic population being the fastest growing. Spanish-speaking employees are coveted in every occupation. As the minority population grows, fewer and fewer segregated areas in the US exist. Hispanic and Latino ethnicities are not the only minorities growing, either. According to Kang (2016), Asians are also immigrating to the US in record numbers. Immigrant patterns of migration mean different healthcare challenges. In the Southwest, especially California, immigrant healthcare is challenged by the growing uninsured Hispanic population (Young & Guo, 2020). Many preventable diseases such as tuberculosis are on the rise because Hispanics crossing the border do not have access to even the most basic healthcare. Often, even when the Hispanic illegal immigrants get work, they are unable to access health insurance. In the past, the language barrier was a problem but that is changing. Hispanics are not the only immigrants coming to the US in large numbers (Jackson et al., 2016). Asian and Middle Eastern people are also immigrating to America in large numbers (Galindo-Arias, 2017). Many of these immigrants have a large impact on healthcare, as they are physicians. These physicians, mostly foreign-educated (Galindo-Arias, 2017) change healthcare delivery in a very basic way because they directly influence the healthcare system. The third group of minorities has nothing to do with ethnicity, and that is the LGBTQ community. Lesbian, gay and transgender people are more vocal than ever about their sexuality and special healthcare problems that they have. Neville and Henrickson (2006) studied healthcare delivery to LGBTQ people and found that a large disparity exists. LGBTQ people have different healthcare needs than heterosexuals, e.g., LGBTQ people are more likely to have serious addictions such as drugs, alcohol, and tobacco but are less likely to have primary care providers ask them about it (Neville & Henrickson, 2006). LGBTQ people have less incidence of unwanted pregnancy, of course, but have more incidence of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV and hepatitis, but are undertreated in many instances. To be fair to healthcare providers, I don’t think anyone goes into healthcare in any form thinking they are going to ignore entire populations. It just seems that the tides of culture are changing so fast it is difficult for the healthcare providers to keep up. Galindo-Arias, M. (2017). What to do with foreign physicians? Revista Colombiana de Anestesiología, 45(2), 86-88. Jackson, C. S., Oman, M., Patel, A. M., & Vega, K. J. (2016). Health disparities in colorectal cancer among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Journal of gastrointestinal oncology, 7(Suppl 1), S32. Kang, S. Y., Kim, I., & Kim, W. (2016). Differential patterns of healthcare service use among Chinese and Korean immigrant elders. Journal of immigrant and minority health, 18(6), 1455-1461. Neville, S., & Henrickson, M. (2006). Perceptions of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people of primary healthcare services. Journal of advanced nursing, 55(4), 407-415. US Census Bureau. (2010). Population Estimates program. Young, S., & Guo, K. L. (2020). Cultural diversity training: The necessity of cultural competence for health care providers and in nursing practice. The health care manager, 39(2), 100-108.

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Academic Level	Masters
Subject Area	Nursing
Paper Type	Admission - Application Essay
Number of Pages	1 Page(s)/275 words
Sources	2
Format	APA 6
Spacing	Double Spacing

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