Assistance with Multicultural interview

Did you ask permission from your instructor to get virtual assistance? Also, there's no way to actually tell if someone from here is "multiculturally diverse" since this is an overall anonymous website.

Yep, they are pretty understanding of the difficulty surrounding finding diversity around here. We are of course encouraged to try first with pt's in our clinical rotations, but have been told if that is not possible any alternative we can find will be accepted.

So your community consists of entirely White Christians. Cultural differences can be both ethnic and religious. Caring for a Buddhist is different than caring for a Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, or Muslim.

Considering I am filipino/colombian I grew up in Sugar Land.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/us/what-ethnic-diversity-looks-like-fort-bend.html

Very diverse. I have also lived in Hawaii, Houston, East Texas, and I am now in ND. There is culture not just by country or religion, but also region.

Texas is an odd state of heavily mixed beliefs. Hawaii is very laid back and alot of people there follow holistic care.

ND is... like old world America. People seem to believe in their healthcare. People here are very nice genuinely friendly people that you do not come across often in other parts of the US IMO.

But this is the thing when it comes to physical(Visual) diversity, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, native, Polynesian, whatever. They are their own person. Anytime you go through one of these the people... they are their own person and is not bound by anything they look like. You cannot judge someone based off of how they look. Sometimes they test people off of this. They tried to do that at my job in orientation saying "Make a back story based off of how this guy looks." I stated "I cannot judge this guy based off of a picture. Its not enough to create a story about him."

That was actually what they were trying to get people to realize.

If they say they follow a certain religious belief then that is when you can start making mild assumptions such as dietary etc.

Muslims and Jewish people do not eat pork

Jehovah witness do not take blood products.

Some Catholics would like weekly communion if your hospital provides it. etc.

Yes. My community consists almost entirely of white Christians. There are of course some rare exceptions but let me put it this way. I have worked inpatient acute care for 1 year at this hospital and I can only remember having non-white patients on 2 occasions.

I live out in a rural "nursing shortage" area. I moved here for the tuition reimbursement. As a Gay man I am the most diversity this county has seen in a long time.

It's crazy. Almost everyone is related to everyone else. My school is down out of the hills. There is a little more diversity there but it is still " cowboy country". This is a big culture shock for me. I moved here from San Francisco.

Thank you everyone. I was able to get someone from this posting and had my survey completed. To answer the last question there is a babtist church, a Presbyterian church and a few evangelical/non-denominational chuches. There is no "proper" synagogue but I heard down in the city the jewish community has an informal meeting at a Rabbi's home. There is no mosque. We have a diner and a seafood/steakhouse. in the next town there is a Mexican restaurant.