Open-sourced equity survey to assess organizational diversity and inclusion

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Janeva Shahi
Fadi Touma
Ava Ghods
Pascale Caidor
Saleem Razack
Adamo Donovan

Abstract

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Bridge Program (ICUBP) has developed a 12 minute, bilingual, and optionally anonymous equity and diversity survey to assess the demographics among volunteers and to evaluate equitable practice within the organization. The outcomes of the survey are currently the basis for recruitment initiatives by their executive team. The purpose of this paper is to make the survey open-source to allow for other institutions to use it as a resource and source of information to set the foundation and/or build on their own equity assessment tools and incorporate these into their existing infrastructure.


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Le Programme de Liaison de l’Unité de Soins Intensif (PLUSI) vient de développer un 12 minutes, bilingue, et facultativement anonyme sondage d’équité et de la diversité pour évaluer les facteurs démographiques parmi ses bénévoles et pour surveiller les pratiques équitables au sein de l’organisation. Les résultats du sondage sont la base d’initiatives de recrutement par leur équipe exécutive. Nous voulons partager le sondage et comment c’est intégré dans le flux de travail quotidien du programme pour qu’il soit de source ouverte pour permettre les autres institutions à l’incorporer facilement dans leur propre infrastructure d’outils de surveillance d’équité.

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