Cultural Engagement Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility

In recent years, nurses have been fired for posting derogatory comments on social media about people who did not look like them. Effective leaders build organizational cultures where employees can thrive in their workplace. Examine your organization’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policy.

Answer these questions:

What policies, if any, exist in your healthcare organization/institution that helps cultivate the skills needed to advance the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion?
• If your organization does not have a DEI policy analyze the DEI policy of another healthcare organization and discuss what policies exist in the healthcare organization/institution that helps cultivate the skills needed to advance the principles of DEI.
• What steps would you take to develop policies you can recommend to your chief nursing officer or chief executive officer?
• What role do you play in eliminating discrimination and horizontal and lateral violence in your workplace?
DQ1 UMBO – 4
DQ1 PLG – 7
DQ1 CLO – 2

Learning Materials
Required Resources:
Kersey-Matusiak, G. (2018). Delivering culturally competent nursing care: Working with diverse and vulnerable populations (2nd ed.). Springer. ISBN: 9780826137272. Read Chapters 2 and 3.
Your textbook provides AACN Cultural Competencies that may have been learned while obtaining your BSN. Please be sure to test your knowledge at the end of the chapter to assess where you are currently with your cultural competency.
Go to Think Cultural Health located on the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Minority Health website (you may access it from the following URL: https://thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/. Continue to work on your Think Cultural Health program.
Additional Resources:
Mwangi, H. (2017, June 14). Cultural Diversity: The Sum of Our Parts. [Video.] YouTube.
UB School of Social Work. (2016, March 28). Cultural Engagement, Cultural Competence, and Cultural Humility. [Video.] YouTube.
Psych Hub Education. (2020, October 5). What is Cultural Humility. [Video] YouTube.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School. (2015, May 6). Why use the term “cultural humility?” [Video] YouTube.
UB School of Social Work. (2016b, July 6). The Importance of Cultural Humility. [Video] YouTube.