Question

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.

Answer 1

It is not easy for the health nurse to identify the bias, stereotypes and to implict bias within the community. For identifying the stereotypes and bias in the community the nurse will evaluate their interactions with other people and by interacting with people the healthcare professionals can understand the background of the patients for high yielding way and he or she can observe his way of behavior.

To ensure the effectiveness of the health development activities the nurse has to collect feedback from the patients.

Strategies:

• Developing or implement multi cultural training and implement programs:

By effective training and development programs that helps to improve the cultural competence of the healthcare professionals.Most of the united states healthcare organizations are giving importance to training programs to ensure the quality in healthcare services.

• Implement open communication model:

Open communication model of healthcare providers can understand the feelings and emotions of the patient.

Implement SBAR:

Healthcare provider can use SBAR method:

• S(Situation): Healthcare provider can understand the situation of the patient by communication.
• B (Background): Health care provider can collect all the background details of the patient.
• A(Assessment): Healthcare providers use proper tools and methods for assessing the patient condition.
• R(Recommendation): Healthcare providers will suggest better treatment to the patient for effective recovery