Blog Post 6: Diversity

Talk about what diversity means to you. And explain how valuing and championing diversity will help you in your career.

Diversity to me means encorporating different elements into whatever it is you are doing. It means adding  variety to your life. Take my job as a Resident Advisor right now for an example. In order to be a really good Resident Advisor you need to be diverse in your life especially when it comes time to different races, religions, backgrounds, and beliefs. It means that you should be open and want to find out more information about topics that you do not already no a lot about. The more that you diversify your life the better you can relate and conversate with your residents on your floor. For me the more diverse your floor is the more opportunities you will have thoughout the year to learn more. People develop and have certain attributes that they possess. Not everyone is good at everything in life. That is why if you are managing a company someday you should select people that are different from one another. The same reasons why a Resident Advisor should diversify themselves and their floor apply to any career. In this case one in Physical Therapy.

Post the diversity statements from 5 companies or organizations in your field of interest, comment how they are similar and/or different. How do each of these fit with your own diversity values?

     Mayo Clinic Health System

Our mission is to inspire hope in order to meet the emotional and spiritual needs of our patients, families and staff.
Our mission interface is to be the specialists in meeting the emotional, crisis, and spiritual needs of our patients, families and staff through:

• Integrated clinical practice
  • By sharing with other disciplines in interdisciplinary rounds and through other interactions with staff rather than acting solo.
  • By working as a fellow team member collaborating with other disciplines in the overall patients plan of care.
• Research
  • By utilizing best practices in spiritual care.
  • By collecting information on the effectiveness of pastoral outcomes and on other processes by the usage of metrics and research.
• Education
  • By providing on-going continuing education to departmental chaplains and other health care staff through in-services and the like.
  • By providing pastoral care training opportunities through Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) internships and CEUs to help spiritual care providers to grow in their competency to meet spiritual needs of people.

     Sacred Heart Hospital

Our Mission
The primary purpose of Sacred Heart Hospital is to provide a structure and the means whereby the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis can continue their apostolic mission to serve the sick, the aged, the poor and the terminally ill without regard to race, color, creed or national origin. The primary concern of Sacred Heart Hospital and the Hospital Sisters is the patient's well-being—spiritual, physical, psychological and social.

     Shriners Hospital for Children

Our mission.

Shriners Hospitals for Children has a mission to:

• Provide the highest quality care to children with neuromusculoskeletal conditions, burn injuries and other special healthcare needs within a compassionate, family-centered and collaborative care environment.
• Provide for the education of physicians and other healthcare professionals.
• Conduct research to discover new knowledge that improves the quality of care and quality of life of children and families.

This mission is carried out without regard to race, color, creed, sex or sect, disability, national origin or ability of a patient or family to pay.

     Rusk County Memorial Hospital

To provide a broad range of high quality, primary, acute, medical care services that will meet most of the health care needs of the people of Rusk County and the adjoining area.

To provide skilled geriatric nursing care with a full range of medical services available in the nursing home.

To promote public wellness and the prevention of illness and discomfort through the education and continued learning of our populace.

To provide assistance and encouragement for health care outreach to our populace, through cooperation and collaboration on a range of social services, chemical dependency, counseling, and public home health nursing services.

To provide attractive and wholesome working conditions, competitive compensation levels, and open communications to encourage the employment and retention of competent and enthusiastic employees.

To provide educational experiences for health care personnel in a clinical setting.

To maintain an open relationship with its medical staff to insure an effective utilization of its resources and an inflow of physicians.

To provide an environment that welcomes the clergy of all faiths to minister to the patients' needs.

To maintain, as a non-profit organization, an economically viable operation through astute stewardship and vigorous cost containment

     Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Our Mission

Northwestern Memorial is an academic medical center hospital where the patient comes first. We are an organization of caregivers who aspire to consistently high standards of quality, cost-effectiveness and patient satisfaction.
We seek to improve the health of the communities we serve by delivering a broad range of services with sensitivity to the individual needs of our patients and their families.
We are bonded in an essential academic and service relationship with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The quality of our services is enhanced through their integration with education and research in an environment that encourages excellence of practice, critical inquiry and learning.