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Cultural diversity issues affect the health care workplace and nursing practice. The Lowenstein-Glanville conflict model can be used for assessing and intervening in racial and status conflict in hospital settings. Implications for nursing practice include recognizing that cultural diversity will continue to grow in the health care workplace. Nurses must increase sensitivity, become aware of cultural nuances and issues, and make cultural assessment a routine part of their assessment and planning, not only for patient care, but also with their co-workers and subordinates.
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Conflict, Psychological , Cultural Characteristics , Interprofessional Relations , Nurses/psychology , Workplace , Humans , Models, PsychologicalABSTRACT
The purpose of this project was to determine the effectiveness of teaching communication skills to preschool children in an inner city day care center. The sample consisted of Black four year olds who had attended the center for at least one year prior to the beginning of the project. An observation guide, consisting of a hierarchical arrangement of ineffective responses, was used to obtain the frequency of inappropriate behaviors before and after formal teaching sessions on communication skills. The Minnesota Model of Communication provided the framework for structured teaching sessions. There was a difference between the total number of acting out behaviors observed before and after implementation of the teaching programs. Also there was a difference between pre and post observations for each day of the week. Findings suggest that formal instruction in communication skills may be one viable approach to decreasing acting out behaviors among young children in day care centers.
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Black or African American/psychology , Child Behavior Disorders/prevention & control , Child Day Care Centers , Communication , Teaching/standards , Child Behavior Disorders/psychology , Child, Preschool , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Female , Humans , Male , Urban PopulationSubject(s)
Cultural Characteristics , Interprofessional Relations , Nurse Administrators/methods , Nursing Service, Hospital/organization & administration , Nursing Theory , Attitude of Health Personnel , Communication , Decision Making, Organizational , Employee Grievances , Humans , Nurse Administrators/education , Nursing Staff/psychology , Prejudice , StereotypingABSTRACT
New parents need information and support to provide care for an infant. When that new parent is a teenager, teen parenting classes can provide the necessary information and support. In addition to basic infant care information, the inclusion of negotiation skills into teen parenting classes enhances the teenager's ability to communicate effectively with immediate family, successfully access preventive health care, and promote positive interactions with other social systems. Steps for incorporating negotiation strategies into teen parenting programs are offered.
