Hopefully, you've now learned how important diversity is in the healthcare setting and how many benefits can be enjoyed when embracing diversity practices. To recap, the following list displays some of the many potential benefits of diversity that we've discussed in this course.
Promoting workforce diversity can:
- Improve employee morale
- Improve corporate culture
- Allow facilities to better care for diverse patient populations
- Increase retention of employees
- Allow for better recruitment of employees
- Build a more qualified healthcare team
- Decrease complaints and lawsuits
- Decrease interpersonal clashes between employees
- Increase employee productivity with one's ability to bring "full self" to work
- Increases creative problem solving
- Increases innovative ideas
No matter what your role is or what similarities or differences you have with your coworkers, everyone deserves to feel a sense of inclusion at their workplace. People do their best work when they can be themselves. Work hard on leadership, employee, organizational, and institutional levels to embrace diversity practices and enjoy the successful outcomes that can be reaped from a diversified team.
