COURSE:
NR500: Foundational Concepts and Applications
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 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
Best Practices in Preparing the Project
The following are best practices in preparing this project.
- Review directions thoroughly.
- Follow submission requirements.
- Make sure all elements on the grading rubric are included.
- Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal, scientific writing.
- Title page, body of paper, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the current edition of the manual. This includes the use of headings for each section of the paper except for the introduction where no heading is used.
- Ideas and information that come from scholarly literature must be cited and referenced correctly.
- A minimum of two (2) scholarly literature references must be used.
Abide by CCN academic integrity policy.
SOLUTION
Addressing Bias
Bias is the multifaceted negative evaluation of one group and its members relative to another. Unconscious is unintentional, is common, and persistent. It can be activated quickly and unknowingly, despite a person’s best intentions. (Bucknor-Ferron, P., & Zagaja, L. (2016). Bias harms the healthcare industry because it influences how we treat our patients, leading to patients receiving care that is different from others. This paper will cover in detail biases, identify my master’s specialty track, and how biases influence my selected practice. I will also recognize my own biases and strategies to reduce them and, finally, a self-reflection of what I learned.
Discussion of Bias
Like I mentioned above, bias is the multifaceted negative evaluation of one group and its members relative to another can be manifested directly or indirectly. Bias harms the healthcare industry because it influences how we treat our patients, leading to patients receiving care that is different from others. One form of bias is implicit bias. It is involuntary; it is either………………………$10
