Culture & Race in Healthcare

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Beth Lincoln, MSN, RN, NP, CTN Related seminars and products

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Beth Lincoln is a Certified Transcultural Nurse, Women & Family Nurse Practitioner and author of Reflections from Common Ground ... Cultural Awareness in Healthcare. Ms. Lincoln currently serves as the International President of the Transcultural Nursing Society. Additionally, she is an Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory, as certified by The Intercultural Communication Institute. As a Nurse Practitioner, she has provided clinical healthcare and professional education for a diverse population. Ms. Lincoln presents extensively, sharing her broad understanding and inspiring others to strive for cultural competence in providing sensitive and effective health care.

Ms. Lincoln is the founder of Celemonde!, a cultural awareness educator for healthcare, scholastic and business institutions and individuals. A pathway to reflection and discovery, the Celmonde! way engages diverse professionals in a new dialogue to better appreciate how cultural issues can influence their effectiveness and decisions and create conflict in their workplace. By creating greater cultural awareness, we can open the door to common goals and better understanding. Ms. Lincoln encourages each of us to celebrate every individual as a unique opportunity to share the colorful history we all represent and the rich fabric we can become by weaving our diverse strands together.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Beth Lincoln has employment relationships with Transcultural Nursing Society and Celemonde!. She receives royalties as a published author. Beth Lincoln receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Beth Lincoln is a member of the Transcultural Nursing Society.

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Objectives

1. Assess the ramifications of implicit bias, prejudice, racism, and discrimination on health and well-being.
2. Evaluate the effect of microaggressions on patients/colleagues and strategies to address.
3. Develop steps organizations can take to address systemic racism in hiring policies, departmental practices, orientation programs and annual evaluations.
4. Determine root causes of health disparities and ethnicity.
5. Differentiate cultural awareness, competence and humility.
6. Create an event analysis to explore varying views of an interaction with patient, family, or colleague.
7. Analyze stressors of minority groups and nurses recruited from outside of the United States.
8. Evaluate diverse cultural responses to conflict.
9. Differentiate the learning needs, literacy assessment and cultural preferences for those receiving health education.

Outline

Implicit Bias & Health Inequities ~ A New Discussion

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• Demographics
• Social determinants of health
• Historical impacts
• Systemic racism - Bias - Relationship
• Microaggressions/mindfulness
• Individual & organization strategies

Cultural Humility ~ A Fresh Perspective

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• Why? Health disparities
• Cultural awareness ~ Competence ~ Humility
• Theorists provide the foundation to care
• Strategies ~ Assessment ~ Event analysis
• Individual & organizational strategies

Workplace Diversity ~ A Voice at the Table

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• Demographics
• Stressors & coping
• Communication strategies
• Conflict styles
• Individual & organizations strategies

Putting it into Practice ~ Ensuring Equitable Care

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• Approaches to health & wellness - Traditional/Western
• Healthcare decisions/actions
• Cultural ways of learning ~ Health education
• Individual & organizational strategies

Target Audience

• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners
• Clinical Nurse Specialists
• Physician Assistants
• Physical Therapists
• Occupational Therapists
• Speech Language Pathologists
• Social Workers
• Therapists
• Counselors
• Psychologists