Acknowledging one's own feelings and behaviours toward working with patients, families, and colleagues who have different cultural backgrounds, health behaviours, belief systems, and work practices is an example of __________
a. learning to embrace diversity in individuals
b. assessing an organization's level of cultural competence
c. a workplace policy on diversity
d. institutional racism
a
a. Correct: This is one of the aspects of self-awareness within the RNAO's individual recommendations for developing cultural competencies and behaviours.
b. Incorrect: Acknowledging one's own feelings and behaviours toward working with patients, families, and colleagues who have different cultural backgrounds, health behaviours, and belief systems is an individual behaviour, and not part of assessing an organization's level of cultural competence.
c. Incorrect: Acknowledging one's own feelings and behaviours toward working with patients, families, and colleagues who have different cultural backgrounds, health behaviours, and belief systems is an individual behaviour, and not necessarily part of a workplace policy on diversity.
d. Incorrect: Acknowledging one's own feelings and behaviours toward working with patients, families, and colleagues who have different cultural backgrounds, health behaviours, and belief systems is one of the aspects of self-awareness within the RNAO's individual recommendations for developing cultural competencies and behaviours. It is not a definition of institutional racism.
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