Culturally Safe Nursing Practice Assignment 2022

Running head: CULTURALLY SAFE NURSING PRACTICE
Culturally Safe Nursing Practice
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note:

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Introduction:
Reflecting upon personal beliefs, values, and behaviours may influence
clinical practice and influence patient quality of care. It is essential to
recognize that patients are distinct from my own values, views and
behaviours (Repo, Vahlberg, Salminen, Papadopoulos, & Leino-Kilpi, 2017).
Understanding why I value something and think it can reveal a cultural
distinction or a precondition that I have for clinical exercise. Reflecting upon
the differences and their impact on patients’ cultural safety may safeguard
patients and refine my clinical practice from cultural discrimination (Douglas
et al., 2013). Specific values, beliefs and behaviours, which may require
further development and bias regions that may lead to unsafe cultural care,
must be studied and reflected (Crawford & Candlin, 2013). Keeping that in
mind, I will be reflecting upon my beliefs, values and behaviours in the
following section and how they might affect my culturally safe practice.
Beliefs:
I respect methods based on evidence that are the outcome of extensive
studies. Patients in my care can trust that only understanding and practice
based on proof from thorough studies influences my practice. However,
additional treatments are accepted and are recognized as additional
therapies for conventional medicine, and a wide range of alternative
therapies are offered that patients can think of as being healthy (Douglas et
al., 2014). Alternative therapies, whether they work with placebo, or
genuinely help patients, are component of their religious cultural identity.
For the restoration of physical health, the cultural well-being of the patient is
essential. The holistic treatment of a patient includes including your religious
convictions in your health plan (Duff, 2013). This is an area where I need to
focus on the continuing growth of culturally safe practice.
I, personally, advocate for all Australians the idealist perspective of health
equality. Social health conditions like the way in which a person receives

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equal health care in Australia are affected by lifestyle, ethnicity,
socioeconomic status, education levels and a geographic place. As a health
professional, I am responsible for providing affordable health services data
and references. Studies have shown that health practitioners have a duty to
tackle inequality between Australians in the social determinants of health
(Kellett & Fitton, 2017). Knowledge of health facilities accessible and the
status of a patient with regard to the social determinants of the health can
be used to better serve the patient and will allow me to develop health plans
that include references to facilities that meet the requirements of the
patient. In addition, through equal access to facilities the patients will
receive cultural secure care (Kellett & Fitton, 2017). The awareness of
accessible services will involve further growth, as I will need to acquire
understanding of the services that are available.
Values:
Continuous learning and time spent on education are a significant personal
value and are taken as a profession by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery
Board (NMBA) (2016). Standard 3.3 is the necessity for improved nursing
practices and good practices results for exercise as a licensed nurse (Nursing
& Midwifery Committee of Australia [NMBA], 2016). Lifelong learning in order
to improve nursing practices, knowledge of developments in medicine,
technology and research must be learned and examined. As a virtue of this,
my understanding stays current and culturally secure for patients. The
difference in medical know-how concentrations, however, could lead to a
power imbalance that would result in culturally unsafe patient circumstances
(NMBA, 2016). As an avid learner, I tend to learn new things every day and
my urge continuous learning will help me in my future nursing practice.
Integrity is an impact on my clinical practice. Honesty and accountability and
responsibility are included in integrity. The preservation of professional
integrity includes renewal of registration, continuous professional growth,