Diversity-related Workplace Issues - Gail Dugan

Students read three articles about diversity in the workplace concerning age, religion, gender, etc., where state or federal laws have been violated. Use such sources as Business Week, Management Today, or The Wall Street Journal. Upon completion of the three articles, students report on the article by presenting the information to classmates in an oral presentation using PowerPoint, overhead transparencies, skit, poster board and/or lecture or any combination

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Culturally Competent Care in Nursing - Valerie Mantz

This is a group of activities to familiarize students to qualities that develop cultural competence in nurses as well as barriers to cultural competence. This activity expands to include assessing or learning about a culture through universal basic organizing factors of: communication, space, social organization, time perception, environmental control, biological variations and nutrition.

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Childbirth Experience - Valerie Mantz

The students will either write about the birth of their own infants or will interview a mother about the birth of her infant(s) from another culture using the reflective questions from the template provided to them. The following class the students will share their experience or interview. In a community setting where diversity is not as prevalent, this assignment is useful to explore birthing experiences over the generations by interviewing women from different generations.

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Cultural Posters - Neil Foltz

Students are expected to create a poster presentation designed to educate the rest of the class about their cultural or ethnic background. Because this is a nursing course, students focus their cultural analysis on health-related issues. Over the course of the quarter, each student will be given an opportunity to teach his or her classmates about this aspect of their culture with a short presentation.

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Heart Transplant Experience - Tim Corbett

The activity focuses on ethical decision-making as well as appreciating diversity. Students work in groups to discuss a situation: There are six critically ill patients who must receive a heart transplant today or else they will die. There are only two hearts available and the students, as surgical team, must decide which two patients of the six will be heart-donor recipients. This activity comes from Mel Silberman’s The Best of Active Training ©2004 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Orientation Scavenger Hunt - Paul Baeder

This is an orientation day scavenger hunt and fact finding activity. The students will go throughout the campus collecting litter and recyclable items and searching for and recording certain facts. This activity adds two additional elements to the standard student scavenger hunt - it promotes cultural awareness and the Green effort on campus. It is not solely diversity-focused, but instead imbeds a focus on diversity into regular classroom activity.

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Hidden Biases - Glenda Hanson

Studies show people can be consciously committed to egalitarianism, and deliberately work to behave without prejudice, yet still possess hidden negative prejudices or stereotypes. So even though we believe we see and treat people as equals, hidden biases may still influence our perceptions and actions. This activity helps students explore their biases in a safe environment and reflect on how these hidden prejudices affect relationship in and out of the workplace. Main activities include a private online activity, personal reflection, and classroom discussion.

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