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The Need For Health Promotion For Minority Nurses And Students

By Linda Stewart


The minority is a group of the population that is unlike the majority. Such may be classified on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, culture among others. The need for diversified nursing students has grown overwhelmingly in hospitals and other healthcare facilities as they strive to have an all-inclusive workforce of nurses. Minority nurses are able to establish a good rapport with clients from similar cultures easily hence trust in earned easily. This is mainly because of the growing minority populations in many countries due to immigration and intermarriage with locals. Here is a summary on health promotion for minority nurses and students.

Most of the immigrants from minor communities and cultures often land with limited language skills hence are not able to express themselves well and comfortably. This becomes a barrier when they need access to healthcare but cannot communicate with the professionals. Some of them also have cultural beliefs that may affect how they access healthcare and to what extremes. This brings about the need to have nurses who can understand them and their cultural backgrounds.

Minorities who wish to practice holistic medicine from underrepresented communities are highly welcomed by nursing schools. These schools hence encourage a lot of minority applicants to apply more than the applicants from the majorities. Health campaigns work to encourage applications from such individuals to their institutions of choice.

In the recent past, affirmative action has enabled minorities secure admission to top-notch health learning institutions. The policies have however received contradiction from courts and interested parties arguing that such criteria is racism. They also push for merit being the only factor to be considered and anything else beyond that is racist. Diverse classrooms remain to be crucial to the health industry.

Even with policies and tools being put in place to encourage their enrollment, the retention rate is low. Many such learners have numerous difficulties especially financial situations, family duties and even work. Nursing schools work to ensure financial aid resources for those unable to raise their schooling fees. They are also increasing accessibility of classes for students who have to balance work and education alongside family obligations.

The challenges facing minorities do not go away even with gaining support in order to join their institutions of choice. Being with majority students makes them face bias in matters like academic skills, perceptions relating to their abilities, limited peer support and even insufficient role models from the faculty.

Selective admission processes work to help the underrepresented students. Academic profiling sometimes leaves out some qualified minorities however as a number of them have pressure from their backgrounds because of being the first in their communities to attend higher education. Being considered as the saviors to their parents or siblings comes with the pressure that some of them are unable to contain.

Health promotions require being done at the level of schools and health facilities apart from doing them at a large scale level. Diversification of the nursing workforce requires being the driving force for most institutions and the advantages that come with it. Factors of merit also need not be left out in the selection process. Although most minorities have trouble at first adjusting to the workplace, they later prove to be of undeniable help in the institutions they work for.




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