Purpose
In today’s current healthcare settings, the increasing diversity, globalization, and expanding technologies produce complex ethical pressures that influence nursing practice and practice outcomes. To be effective in a master’s-prepared advanced nurse practice role it is important to understand personal values, beliefs, strengths, and limitations. The purpose of this assessment is to promote introspective reflection related to implicit and/or explicit personal biases. Students will develop a plan to reduce bias and promote personal and professional growth.
Course Outcomes
CO 1: Examine roles and competencies of master’s-prepared nurses essential to performing as leaders and advocates of holistic, safe, and quality care. (PO 1-5)
CO 2: Apply concepts of person-centered care to nursing practice situations. (PO 1, 2, 5)
Total Points Possible
This assessment is worth 125 points.
Due Date
Submit your file(s) by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday at the end of Week 3.
Students are given the opportunity to request an extension on assignments for emergent situations. Supporting documentation must be submitted to the assigned faculty. If the student’s request is not approved, the assignment is graded and a late penalty is applied as follows:
- Monday = 10% of total possible point reduction
- Tuesday = 20% of total possible point reduction
- Wednesday = 30% of total possible point reduction
If the student’s request is approved, the student will be informed of the revised due date. Should the student fail to meet the revised due date, the assignment is graded and a late penalty is applied as follows:
- Monday = 10% of total possible point reduction
- Tuesday = 20% of total possible point reduction
- Wednesday = 30% of total possible point reduction
Requirements
Criteria for Content
Complete a self-inventory on personal biases you hold. The biases might be implicit or explicit.
- In a one to two-page summary, address the following.
- Identify your selected specialty track (education, executive, family nurse practitioner, healthcare policy, or nursing informatics).
- Discuss how biases can impact outcomes in selected nursing practice settings.
- Identify personal biases and attitudes toward people with various cultural, gender, sexual orientation, age, weight, and religions that are different than your own.
- Select one bias that you have.
- Develop one strategy to reduce this bias.
Preparing the paper
Submission Requirements
- Application: Use Microsoft Word 2013™ to create the written assessment.
- Length: The paper (excluding the title page and reference page) is at maximum two pages.
- A minimum of two (2) scholarly literature references must be used. Make sure to use references that are current, no older than 5 years.
- Submission: Submit your files: Last name_First initial_Assessment 2_Addressing Bias
Solution:
Addressing Bias
The nursing profession emphasizes the commitment to health equity and social justice which can be enhanced by understanding and addressing personal biases (Bucknor-Ferron & Zagaja, 2016). This paper will discuss how biases impact outcomes in nursing education specialty, discuss personal biases, strategies for addressing the biases, and provide a self-reflection.
Discussion of Bias
Bias can impact the outcomes of nursing education. Biases in nursing may be explicit (at a conscious level) or implicit (at an unconscious level) (Narayan, 2019). Nursing educators play a crucial role in the promotion of health outcomes. They ought to react and respond positively to all nursing students, objectively assessing them, enhancing their strengths, and supporting them in their areas of weakness (Bucknor-Ferron & Zagaja, 2016). Biases can limit nurse educators’ ability to perform their roles and responsibilities and strain the relationship between the educator and nursing student. For instance, a nurse educator who is biased that female nursing students are….Please click the icon below to purchase full answer at only $10