In a 3–5 page paper, describe the role of diversity, equity, and inclusion in healthcare and strategies for overcoming bias.
This assessment is an opportunity for you to analyze and have a better understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and the importance of recognizing unconscious bias and microaggressions in the field of healthcare. Your insights and reflections are valued, so feel free to draw from your own experiences to provide depth to your paper. In addition to the suggested readings, use the Capella library to locate at least two academic peer-reviewed journal articles published within the last 3–5 years to support your main points and conclusions.
- Describe the evolution of DEI in healthcare and how it is continuing to influence patient care.
- Reflect on how the concept of diversity, equity, and inclusion has evolved during your career.
- Discuss any significant changes, initiatives, or policies that have contributed to a more inclusive healthcare environment.
- Explain how unconscious bias leads to microaggressions.
- Discuss how unconscious bias can lead individuals to make assumptions about others based on their appearance or other characteristics associated with their identity.
- Describe the ways in which individuals may not be aware of the biases that influence their perceptions and behaviors.
- Explain how unconscious bias may lead individuals to show preference for those who are perceived as being similar to themselves in terms of race, gender, or other characteristics.
- Discuss how, while often unintended, microaggressions have a negative impact on the individuals who experience them.
- Describe strategies for overcoming bias in healthcare and how they can continue to shape DEI practices in the future.
- Discuss any initiatives or training programs that address unconscious bias and microaggressions, and how they have influenced your practice.
- Explain the importance of diverse workforce and leadership.
- Explain how DEI in healthcare results in improved health outcomes and increased patient satisfaction.
- Discuss how healthcare providers are better equipped to understand and respect the cultural beliefs, practices, and preferences of their diverse patient population.
- Describe how an inclusive company allows patients to feel heard, understood, and valued.
Organize your paper using the following structure and headings:
- Title page. (A separate page.)
- Describe the evolution of DEI in healthcare and how it is continuing to influence patient care.
- Explain how unconscious bias leads to microaggressions.
- Describe strategies for overcoming bias in healthcare and how they can continue to shape DEI practices in the future.
- Explain how DEI in healthcare results in improved health outcomes and increased patient satisfaction.
- Conclusion. (One paragraph.)
- References. (A separate page.)
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
- Length: Include at least 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, in addition to the title page and reference page.
- Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12 point.
- Writing: Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
- Sources: Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
- References: Use at least two scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles and three in-text citations within the paper. Visit the Evidence and APA page if needed. Use scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles published during the past 3–5 years that relate to your topic. Visit BSN Program Library Research Guide for help with research.
- Academic Honesty: Submit a draft of your assessment to Turnitin and make any necessary changes before you submit it to your instructor for grading.
Example assessment: You may use the Assessment 4 Example [PDF] to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 4: Describe strategies for overcoming biases in healthcare settings.
- Describe the evolution of DEI in healthcare and how it is continuing to influence patient care.
- Explain how unconscious bias leads to microaggressions.
- Describe strategies for overcoming bias in healthcare and how they can continue to shape DEI practices in the future.
- Explain how DEI in healthcare results in improved health outcomes and increased patient satisfaction.
- Competency 5: Write for a specific audience, in an appropriate tone and style, in accordance with Capella writing standards.
- Produce text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
- Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
Describe the evolution of DEI in healthcare and how it is continuing to influence patient care.
Distinguished
Describes the evolution of DEI in healthcare and how it is continuing to influence patient care, providing applicable examples.
Proficient
Describes the evolution of DEI in healthcare and how it is continuing to influence patient care.
Basic
Describes some changes related to DEI in healthcare, but may not describe its continuing influence.
Non Performance
Does not describe the evolution of DEI in healthcare and how it is continuing to influence patient care.
Explain how unconscious bias leads to microaggressions.
Distinguished
Explains how unconscious bias leads to microaggressions, providing applicable examples.
Proficient
Explains how unconscious bias leads to microaggressions.
Basic
Explains unconscious bias, but the connections to microaggressions are unclear.
Non Performance
Does not explain how unconscious bias leads to microaggressions.
Describe strategies for overcoming bias in healthcare and how they can continue to shape DEI practices in the future.
Distinguished
Describes strategies for overcoming bias in healthcare and how they can continue to shape DEI practices in the future, including providing suggestions for successful implementation.
Proficient
Describes strategies for overcoming bias in healthcare and how they can continue to shape DEI practices in the future.
Basic
Identifies strategies for overcoming bias in healthcare without describing them or how they can continue to shape DEI practices in the future.
Non Performance
Does not describe strategies for overcoming bias in healthcare and how they can continue to shape DEI practices in the future.
Explain how DEI in healthcare results in improved health outcomes and increased patient satisfaction.
Distinguished
Explains how DEI in healthcare results in improved health outcomes and increased patient satisfaction, providing support from the literature.
Proficient
Explains how DEI in healthcare results in improved health outcomes and increased patient satisfaction.
Basic
Explains the role of DEI in healthcare without clearly making the connections to improved health outcomes.
Non Performance
Does not explain how DEI in healthcare results in improved health outcomes and increased patient satisfaction.
Produce text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Distinguished
Produces text free of grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Proficient
Produces text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Basic
Produces text with some grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors, making text difficult to follow at times.
Non Performance
Produces text with significant grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors, making text difficult to follow.
Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
Distinguished
Integrates into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style without errors and uses current reference sources.
Proficient
Integrates into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
Basic
Integrates into text mostly appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style, but there are lapses in style use.
Non Performance
Does not integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
Does not integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
Thank you,