1. Chapter 11 Diversity

2. Forecast for the RN Workforce ? Changing demographics –More need for RNs, LPNs, and MAs Changing face of the profession Issues surrounding shortages of nursing teachers? Increased retirements of RNs

3. Diversity Culture –Beliefs, values, norms, and folkways of a specific group Race –Similar biologic variations

4. Diversity Ethnicity –Socially driven Self-identification and sense of belonging

5. Acculturation Adopting new behaviors of the immediate culture –Results in new values, knowledge, or belief sets shared by all members Assimilation

6. Ways in Which People Differ

7. Theorists Madeline Leininger –Transcultural Nursing Theory Giger and Davidhizar –Transcultural Assessment Model Spector –Cultural Heritage Model

8. Race, Nursing, and Society

10. Men to Women

11. Gender Issues within the Profession Representing 5.4 percent of total RN population Seem to veer toward psychiatry, emergency medicine, anesthesia, critical care, and administration Gender issues that not only male RNs face, but the profession

12. Aging Nursing Workforce Largest decline in last two decades is in under-30 group of RNs –25.1 percent (1980) to 9.1 percent (2000)

13. Aging Nursing Workforce GAO 2010 –Percentage of nurses over age 50 will be approximately 40 percent of the total nursing workforce