M4 A8 WA: INSTRUCTIONS – NURSES CULTURAL BACKGROUND AND IMPACT ON CARE

M4 A8 WA: INSTRUCTIONS – NURSES CULTURAL BACKGROUND AND IMPACT ON CARE

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Overview

This week, you will consider your own diverse cultural and generational background and how it impacts the care you provide to your patients.

For this written assessment we will focus on generational diversity in the nursing population. Review table 12.2 on p. 379 of your textbook and address the following:

1. Define and describe the four generations – name, timeframe, and a description of that group’s characteristics.
2. Choose the group to which you belong. Explain how you think that you fit with this assessment of that generation.
3. Select any other group to which you do not belong. Explain how those from your group can learn from that group, and explain how that group could learn from yours.

Points:  40

Due Date: Sun, Mar 21 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) of the US.

References

Minimum of four (4) total references: two (2) references from required course materials and two (2) peer-reviewed references. All references must be no older than five years (unless making a specific point using a seminal piece of information)

Peer-reviewed references include references from professional data bases such as PubMed or CINHAL applicable to population and practice area, along with evidence based clinical practice guidelines. Examples of unacceptable references are Wikipedia, UpToDate, Epocrates, Medscape, WebMD, hospital organizations, insurance recommendations, & secondary clinical databases.

Style

Unless otherwise specified, all the written assignment must follow APA 7th edition formatting, citations and references. Click here to download a Microsoft Word APA template. Review this annotated student sample paper guide which draws attention to relevant content and formatting in 7th edition APA style. Make sure you cross-reference the APA 7th edition book as well before submitting the assignment. Refer to the ‘LEARNER SUPPORT’ tab for more information regarding APA 7th edition with comparisons to 6th edition.

Number of Pages/Words

Unless otherwise specified all papers should have a minimum of 600 words (approximately 2.5 pages) excluding the title and reference pages.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Nurses Cultural Background and Impact on Care

The nursing field is characterized by various generations of nurses with varying knowledge, values, beliefs, and ideas. Despite these generational and cultural differences, all nurses must work in harmony for the benefit of the profession and better-quality patient care. According to Andrews and Boyle (2016), the different generations have varying views on communication, commitment, and compensation. In this paper, generations of nurses will be defined and a reflection on which generation I belong given as well as explain how nurses from two different generations can learn from one another.

Generations of Nurses Four generations of nurses exist including veteran generation, baby boomers, millennial generation, and Xers generation. Each cohort varies from the other in characteristics often resulting in complexity in the workplace. If not harmonized, the differences can impair patient care. The classification into the four cohorts is based on the years individuals were born and the major common life…