NRS-428VN-0501-Concepts in Community and Public Health: Bias and stereotypes

NRS-428VN-0501-Concepts in Community and Public Health: Bias and stereotypes: How does the community health nurse recognize bias, stereotypes, and implicit bias within the community…

NRS-428VN-0501-Concepts in Community and Public Health: Bias and stereotypes

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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.

Concepts in Community and Public Health
A community nurse can hardly admit to being biased towards some patients, yet it is something they encounter as they practice their career. Nurses should recognize any biases they may hold and assess how they respond to them. According to Johnson (2014), recognizing that within the community there is bias, stereotypes, and inherent bias implies that a nurse understands he/she may have some feelings about other people’s mannerisms, appearances, and populations, which need to get addressed and handled to provide patients with the best possible healthcare. 
A community health nurse can address bias, implicit bias, and stereotypes by incorporating various strategies to eliminate such values and beliefs in healthcare. For instance, a nurse should ensure he/she is personally aware of such values and beliefs, which may lead to unconscious bias (Green, 2018). Then one should acknowledge the problem’s existence to take action to solve it. The next strategy is being empathetic, where a nurse should empathize with her/his patients and the circumstances they are facing to understand their feelings. Moreover, a nurse should be advocates by communicating with healthcare team members to identify the best treatment options and ensure patient’s rights do not get overlooked. Furthermore, education should be provided to all nurses and healthcare providers to raise awareness and recognize implicit bias, reducing its prevalence. 
Provision of competent healthcare involves respecting the patient’s beliefs and values and letting them practice them as long as they do not interfere with treatment processes.

According to Korr (2015), in the article Symposium Examines Racial Barriers to Healthcare; Implicit Biases, ethnic and racial barriers in healthcare should be examined where strategies should be developed to help in addressing them. The article states that IOM (Institute of Medicine) usually recommends that it is essential to collect data on ethnicity, race, and a patient’s preferred language to help eliminate any disparities using EMR records, helping develop strategies that will offer proper preventive care. 

References
Green, Sue Z (2018) Populations as Clients. Community & public health: The future of health care. Retrieved from -future-of-health-care/v1.1/
Johnson, R. L., Saha, S., Arbelaez, J. J., Beach, M. C., & Cooper, L. A. (2014). Racial and Ethnic Differences in Patient Perceptions of Bias and Cultural Competence in Health Care. -org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/j.1525-1497.2004.30262.x
Korr, M. (2015). Symposium Examines Racial, Ethnic Barriers to Health Care; Implicit Biases. Rhode Island Medical Journal, 98(7), 57. Retrieved from -ebscohost-com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=103680996&site=eds- live&scope=site