The report of Institute of Medicine (IOM) is essential for the future of nursing. In fact, it is recommended by the ANA or the American Nurses Association (nursingworld.com). Nowadays, the nurses are facing a complex healthcare environment, which they need to face. In that case, the nurse’s role is no longer as simple as it was before. The nursing environment’s complexity nowadays requires nurses to take the next step such as aiming for a leadership role. Such leap is essential so as to address the demands of continuous healthcare changes. Relatively, the IOM report is the outcome of the initiatives on the nursing’s future, which was sponsored by RWJF or Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. As a response, the ANA created a leadership institute in order to develop the nurse’s career path as well as being a leader in the chosen profession.
In relation to becoming a successful in this field, cultural competency is also an important factor that needs to be exercised by nurses. As defined, a nurse’s cultural competency is the ability to work efficiently in a cross-cultural circumstance (hhs.gov). A culturally competent nurse has the attitude, behavior, and even the skills to provide necessary healthcare needs to her clients regardless of the race or ethnicity. It is also important for a nurse to be aware of her own cultural bias (Bacote, 2003). That is because to avoid the risk of being engaged in cultural nuisance, because such engagement may tend to impose an individual’s values, beliefs, and behavior towards another culture. Therefore, cultural considerations should be implemented so as to avoid any cultural conflict between nurses and their patients or clients.
Ethnicity is the person’s cultural background including the place where he or she came from. Such background includes one’s behavior and cultural beliefs based on the ethnic group that he or she came from. For example, Arab people are the ones who originally came from Arab countries that normally have Islam as their religion.
References
American Nurses Association. (n.d.). IOM Future of Nursing Report. Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ThePracticeofProfessionalNursing/workforce/IOM-Future-of-Nursing-Report-1
Bacote, J. C. (2003). Many Faces: Addressing Diversity in Health Care. Addressing Diversity in Health Care, 8(1).
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (n.d.). Culturally Competent Nursing Care - Home. Retrieved from https://ccnm.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/
