Forecast for the Changing RN Workforce: Diversity, Culture, and Gender Perspective
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Chapter 11 Diversity
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
Diversity • Culture • Beliefs, values, norms, and folkways of a specific group • Race • Similar biologic variations
Diversity • Ethnicity • Socially driven • Self-identification and sense of belonging
Acculturation • Adopting new behaviors of the immediate culture • Results in new values, knowledge, or belief sets shared by all members • Assimilation
Theorists • Madeline Leininger • Transcultural Nursing Theory • Giger and Davidhizar • Transcultural Assessment Model • Spector • Cultural Heritage Model
Gender Issueswithin 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
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)
Aging Nursing Workforce • GAO • 2010 • Percentage of nurses over age 50 will be approximately 40 percent of the total nursing workforce