On clinical nurses’ views about diversities- A qualitative study

Abstract

It is a must for nurses to provide healthcare to people from diverse cultures, ethnicities, religions, and genders. This descriptive qualitative study aimed to explore nurses' approaches to various people. The study collected data via semi-structured interviews and contacted 40 nurses through snowball sampling. Most nurses were between the ages of 25–40 and female, 22 of them had postgraduate degrees, and 18 had undergraduate degrees in nursing. Only 10 of them had received special training related to diversity. MaxQda software program was used for content analyses, and four basic themes were determined respectively, ''Nurses' perceptions of diversity,'' ''Nurses' perceptions of diversity towards patients,'' ''Nurses' perceptions of diversity towards healthcare professionals,'' and ''Nurses' perceptions of diverse towards the institution.'' Participant nurses mainly revealed that although legal and organizational procedures aimed to prevent discriminative attitudes in clinical environments, discriminatory attitudes of nurses and healthcare professionals toward diverse people still occurred.

Keywords

• Nurse
• Nursing
• Diversity management
• Diversities
• Qualitative study