Aboriginal and Torres Strait Reflective Essay 2022

Reflective essay on Aboriginal and Torres Strait people using
Gibb’s reflective cycle
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Contents
Introduction-............................................................................................................ 3
Conclusion-.............................................................................................................. 5
Action of plan-.......................................................................................................... 5
References-............................................................................................................... 6

Introduction-
Aboriginal and Torres Strait people makes about 2.4% of the Australian population, these are
the indigenous people and have been living in Australia since the past 60,000 years. Life
expectancy of the Aboriginal and the Torres Strait people is almost 20 years less than the
average non-indigenous Australians (Anderson et al., 2006). I being an international overseas
student had no knowledge about these indigenous people of Australia, their health and their
wellbeing. The sole role or the purpose of the nurses is to look out for the people’s wellbeing
and their health irrespective of their background, including the indigenous people (Wilson,
2003). Australian government have been trying to improve this status and the quality of
health given to the Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait people by closing the gates.
Nurses being the health care providers play a vital role in this. Reflective practice is
considered important for all the health care professionals to improve and understand the
situation precisely(Husebø, O'Regan and Nestel, 2015).This reflective essay has used Gibb’s
reflective cycle and how I used it to describe my feelings, evaluated the situation, analysed it
and then put my action plan on it.
Aboriginal people are the indigenous people of Australia living in the country from over a
past few centuries. After the commonwealth treaties and agendas the community were denied
many rights including the right to vote and health rights in 1901 by the government. from
1908 to some following years the commonwealth passed a rule like maternity leave, widow’s
pension, unemployment and many more but the aboriginal people were devoid of it and were
restricted to use it.
After joining the university I came to know about the indigenous people of Australia that is
the Aboriginal and the Torres Strait communities. These people have been going through
discrimination since the British colonisation. There have been cases of stolen children,
women and mental illness in these people because of racism (Jenkins, 2013). My first
encounter with one of these people was in the hospital, when I was assisting a doctor in a
case. A person came in an emergency ward seeking for help with him, his wife and his
daughter. These people did not look like what Australians look now. On the arrival he was
send inside with blood coming out from his hand. The doctor I was appointed under took the
same case. On seeing the people he said NO for the treatment and said he cannot treat him as
he was from Aboriginal background.