Question

Conduct an assessment of the health care environment where you work (i.e. health department, long-term care facility, specialty clinic, inpatient hospital, etc)

Specifically, examine potential barriers that may exist for a member of a minority group that has a significant presence in your community (i.e. Native American, Cubans, Hmong).

Assess the potential organizational barriers to care in your work environment.

Explore ways to decrease barriers to health care for this minority group so that your organization can strive for cultural competency

Answer 1

Barriers to healthcare change:

Lack of support from the leaders

Staff resistance or skeptiscm for change

Organization resistance to invest money and time

lack of or insufficient resources [internal]

lack of roles and accountability

Ways to overcome barriers:

Facilitate the peers to involve and improve the leadership skills

Facilitate team based problem solving

Improve the care plans based on sound clinical data and clinical pilot trials

Get help from external sources for the initial project by fund raising camps

Create strategies and plans for individual roles and responsibilities and monitor the same.