The work is to be 5 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page

The work is to be 5 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. Immigration brought people from different cultures, ethnicities and races with unique medical needs from the ones that nurses were previously used to (Gooden et al., 2001).

It has been increasingly acknowledged that for healthcare provision to be holistically successful, it has to address the physical, psychological, and patients’ emotional needs. Therefore, diversity calls for nurses to have more than clinical skills for treating specific diseases and medical conditions. Different age groups suffer from different illnesses and conditions, while some diseases are more prevalent among some ethnic groups than in others. Diversity is therefore significant because it provides nurses with necessary knowledge for addressing patients’ needs across age, gender, ethnicity, race, and culture dimensions (Hein, 2001).

According to the Webster dictionary, diversity refers to a state of having or being composed of differing elements or the inclusion of different types of people in a group or organization. In research literature, diversity is defined as the difference or uniqueness of subjects. Popular literature looks at diversity as any dimension that can be used to differentiate people. In this domain, diversity has a connotation for appreciation and respect for the differences between people such as national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, and disability. Visual image views diversity as the unique ways in which individuals conceive and perceive inner representations of their experiences. The anecdotal view of diversity is that it refers to unique unscientific observations or reports (Schim et al., 2007).