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The DEI Grant supports education and research efforts and increase diversity within the nurse anesthesia profession with innovation and creativity.
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Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Leading the way to increased cultural sensitivity, diversity, and inclusion within nurse anesthesiology.
AANA members have many options and opportunities to serve and support fellow CRNAs/nurse anesthesiologists and the nurse anesthesiology profession overall. Join one or more AANA committees and play a part in creating, improving, and implementing new strategies, programs, and more.
Cultural Competency Supporting Resources
Cultural Competency Supporting Resources
- AHRQ: Improving Cultural Competence To Reduce Health Disparities
- CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report—U.S. 2013: Key Factors That Affect Health and Lead To Health Disparities in the United States
- Transcultural Nursing: Standards of Practice for Culturally Competent Nursing Care
- HHS: Think Cultural Health
- HHS Office of Minority Health: Culturally Competent Nursing Care: A Cornerstone of Caring
- Joint Commission: Health Equity
- Modern Healthcare: Growing the Ranks of Minority Nurses
- RWJF: What We’re Learning: Reducing Disparities in the Quality of Care for Racial and Ethnic Minorities Improves Care
- Forbes: Why Health Care is Different if You’re Black, Latino Or Poor
- Facebook: Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Education
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Education
- Diversity of Nurse Anesthesia Education Mentorship program
- National Student Nurses Association: Dynamics of Diversity, Becoming Better Nurses through Diversity Awareness
- Honoring Diversity: Developing Culturally Competent Communication Skills Through Simulation
- AANA Journal: A Successful Partnership to Help Reduce Health Disparities: The Institute for Culturally Competent Care and the Kaiser Permanente School of Anesthesia/California State University Fullerton
- Journal of Professional Nursing: Lost in Translation: Student Perceptions of Cultural Competence in Undergraduate and Graduate Nursing Curricula
- AANA Journal: Cultural Competency in Nurse Anesthesia Education
Leadership
Leadership
- American Hospital Association (AHA): Strategies for Leadership: A Diversity and Cultural Proficiency Assessment Tool for Leaders
- Becker’s Hospital Review: The New Look of Diversity in Healthcare, Where We Are and Where We’re Headed
- CDC: Tools for Cross-Cultural Communication and Language Access Can Help Organizations Address Health Literacy and Improve Communication Effectiveness
- Equity of Care: A Toolkit for Eliminating Health Care Disparities
- Equity of Care: Becoming a Culturally Competent Health Care Organization
- RWJF: 5 Things to Remember About Reducing Disparities