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In essence, implicit as well as explicit biases are inclusive of the various associations made by a health care practitioner that could effectively result in the negative evaluation of an individual on the basis of a wide range of features including, but not limited to, gender, sexual orientation, and race (Rosa, 2016). Numerous studies have in the past indicated that indeed, biases can impact outcomes in various nursing practice settings. In one such study, FitzGerald and Hurst (2017) found out that there is sufficient evidence indicating that there are no significant differences between the bias levels exhibited by healthcare professionals and those exhibited by the general population. Implicit bias could, for instance, take place “between a group or category attribute, such as being black, and a negative evaluation (implicit prejudice) or another category attribute, such as being violent (implicit stereotype)” (FitzGerald and Hurst, 2017, p. 21). It is important to note that in addition to mismanagement of symptoms, biases could also result in failure on the part of healthcare professionals to advance preventive care in settings where it is deserved. Further, as Rosa (2016) points out, biases could result in unrealistic extensions in appointment waiting times. A good example of bias in a practice setting would be where more effective interventions (i.e. better treatment options) are less frequently recommended for black patients than is the case for white patients. Further, in some instances, medical practitioners could be anxious about interactions with certain people, i.e. gay people or people of color. In such a case, the time spent between a provider with such anxieties and patients who trigger such anxieties could be shortened – effectively impacting quality of care, and thus outcomes.
Regarding one bias I could be having, it would be prudent to first indicate that as a healthcare professional, I do not view myself as being biased. However, being human, I am not immune to some unintentional bias, i.e. implicit bias. For instance, I tend to tag specific clothing items as well as walking styles with certain qualities such as inability to make wise/rational life decisions, immorality, promiscuity, etc. For this reason, I could unconsciously make assumptions to the effect that a person clad in such…
References
FitzGerald, C. & Hurst, S. (2017). Implicit Bias in Healthcare Professionals: A Systematic Review. BMC Med Ethics, 18, 19-24.
Rosa, W. (2016). Nurses as Leaders: Evolutionary Visions of Leadership. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
Nursing Education Does nursing have a unique body of knowledge or is it the application of various other fields of knowledge in a practice setting? Nursing does have a unique body of knowledge as Moyer and Whittmann-Price (2008) state "it is nursing's unique knowledge base that warrants a unique service or practice called professional nursing" (6). This means that like the other help-specific sciences nursing was founded on the basis of research
That is, though overall job satisfaction is rated significantly higher than the itemized individual aspects, most items were rated a point or two above the median level of satisfaction, not exactly demonstrating strong support for the environment as it currently stands but demonstrating a great enough degree of satisfaction to make effective work possible. Further analysis based on the more meaningful findings in this study, such as the impact
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