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Senin, 21 Mei 2018

The Need For Health Promotion For Minority Nurses And Students

The Need For Health Promotion For Minority Nurses And Students


by Linda Stewart


The minority is a group of the population that is unlike the majority. Such may be classified on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, culture among others. The need for diversified nursing students has grown overwhelmingly in hospitals and other healthcare facilities as they strive to have an all-inclusive workforce of nurses. Minority nurses are able to establish a good rapport with clients from similar cultures easily hence trust in earned easily. This is mainly because of the growing minority populations in many countries due to immigration and intermarriage with locals. Here is a summary on health promotion for minority nurses and students.

A high population of minority immigrants has poor language skills which make it hard to attend to them when they are in need of medical attention. These individuals are often unable to express themselves clearly to the practitioners. Cultural beliefs relating to treatment may also get in the way hence more the need to have nurses who understand the language and culture of such individuals.

Nursing schools tend to have a developed interest in minorities who have a desire to practice holistic medicine especially in populations that are underrepresented. In order to achieve this, nursing schools require having higher numbers of minority applicants than the current applicants. The health campaigns thus push to encourage such individuals to go ahead and submit their applications in their institutions of choice.

Affirmative action has gone a long way in helping minorities secure learning positions in top-notch institutions. However, the policies have not come up without contradictions from courts and other interested parties. Considering race as one of the factors during admission of learners has been objected as racism admission slots should only be given on the basis of merit. Diverse classrooms should also be considered as being crucial to the system regardless of how they are achieved.

Despite many interested parties pushing for increased enrollment of minorities, their retention in learning institutions remains low. Such students deal with difficulties like financial instability, family responsibilities and some even work to pay for their education. Learning institutions have tried to fill the gap by offering financial aid to the students who are not able to raise their fees. Increasing accessibility of classes for the learners balancing education, family, and work is also a way to keep such scholars in school.

The challenges facing minorities do not go away even with gaining support in order to join their institutions of choice. Being with majority students makes them face bias in matters like academic skills, perceptions relating to their abilities, limited peer support and even insufficient role models from the faculty.

Selective admission processes work to help the underrepresented students. Academic profiling sometimes leaves out some qualified minorities however as a number of them have pressure from their backgrounds because of being the first in their communities to attend higher education. Being considered as the saviors to their parents or siblings comes with the pressure that some of them are unable to contain.

Health promotions require being done at every level in the health industry, from schools to workplaces in order to encourage diversification of the nursing workforce that will be able to cater for the growing needs of the people. Although minorities may have difficulty adjusting at first, their impact cannot be overlooked.




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Title: The Need For Health Promotion For Minority Nurses And Students
Author: Linda Stewart
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Keywords: health promotion for minority nurses and students
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