28 Jan For the initial post, address

SOCS350 Cultural Diversity in the Professions

Week 6 Discussion

DQ1 Examining Strategies

For the initial post, conduct an internet search and locate short video clips that provide examples that offer strategies for dealing with prejudice and discrimination. For example, you can look up and review the video A Class Divided (a PBS documentary). Then, address the following:

What strategies are used to address prejudice and discrimination?

How does the strategy vary according to the audience (e.g., children, adults, etc.)?

Connect the strategies presented in the video to the strategies discussed in this week’s lesson or course reading.

Offer examples of how your workplace or how the health care professions environment could develop strategies to improve communication barriers and compliance.

Explain the value of self-awareness regarding your role in the healthcare profession by being able to recognize and manage diversity issues.

What role does self-awareness play in addressing these issues?

What policies or procedures does your workplace have in place to promote and encourage self-awareness of diversity?

Can you make any recommendations for workplaces to highlight self-awareness as a value of importance?

DQ2 Traditions and Cultures

For the initial post, address the following:

In our diverse society, how do we honor the traditions and cultures of so many varied groups without inadvertently disadvantaging anyone in your workplace and/or in the healthcare profession?

How can we develop strategies to ensure that cultural traditions are respected and preserved while recognizing our commonalities?

Follow-Up Post Instructions

Respond to at least two peers or one peer and the instructor. Further the dialogue by providing more information and clarification. For example, evaluate your peers’ ideas. What strategies would work in your workplace? What drawbacks do you see or what caution will you need to take?