Nursing Care of Indigenous Australians and Cultural Safety Philosophy

This report discusses the statement 'I'm not racist, I treat everyone the same' in relation to nursing care of Indigenous Australians and the development of cultural safety philosophy. It explores the challenges faced by Indigenous Australians in accessing culturally appropriate healthcare and the role of cultural safety in nursing practice.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
‘I’m not racist, I treat everyone the same’. Discuss this statement in relation to nursing or midwifery
care of Indigenous Australians and the development of cultural safety philosophy as defined by New
Zealand Maori midwives.........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................8
REFRENCES..............................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
For every person it is essential that they seem other equal because that will leads to
development of effective relation, situation as well as it will also help in minimizing situation of
conflict. At the workplace equality help in developing a positive as well as appropriate working
culture where there is less or no conflict and every employee are conducting work properly
(Beks and et. al. , 2020). The respective report is based on the statement i.e. ‘I’m not racist, I
treat everyone the same’ which means it is essential that every person must be treated equally as
well as there should be do discrimination among the people because it leads to bad environment.
This report is based on explanation of respective statement in relation to nursing of Indigenous
Australians as well as development of culture safety philosophy that is defined as New Zealand
Maori midwives.
MAIN BODY
‘I’m not racist, I treat everyone the same’. Discuss this statement in relation to nursing or
midwifery care of Indigenous Australians and the development of cultural safety philosophy as
defined by New Zealand Maori midwives.
Indigenous Australians are those people who are descended from group which lived at
Australia as well as surrounding island before British colonization. They consider the Aboriginal
as well as Torres Strait Island individual of Australia. The respective people of Australia
celebrate or follow a culture which stretches back in least 65000 years. Indigenous community
live in danger vilified as destabilizing force in respective country as well as they also
experienced while getting nursing facilities (Bond and Singh, 2020). The individual who defined
themselves as a Indigenous Australians are of darn skinned, broad nosed to blonde hired and
having blue eyes as well as these people are generally defined for their relationship as light
skinned aboriginal individual faced challenges in their identify because of stereotyping (Nursing
care and indigenous Australians: An autoethnography, 2020). Public mental service or nursing
cares in Australia have failed to offer or provide culturally effective as well as appropriate care
for the Indigenous Australians. In addition to this, it is also determined that health status of
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Aboriginal people as well as Torres Straits Islander individual is considerably poorer or bad as
compare to the other social group at the Australia. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery
Federation considered nursing as well as midwifery professions play an essential role in
enhancing health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people as well as that addressing
inequality in health is a priority statement (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, 2014).
Along with this, there are several factors through which position of the Australian Nursing and
Midwifery Federation can be determined, from which some are mentioned below:-
 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people groups should have fair and moderate access
to wellbeing administrations that help their wellbeing and prosperity.
 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people groups should have evenhanded access to
satisfactory sustenance, new food and clean water; instruction to help solid ways of life;
safe lodging, and work.
 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people group controlled health care service or
administrations ought to be subsidized and bolstered to work inside and advocate for their
networks (Fredericks and et. al., 2020).
 All health services should concentrate on improving beliefs and security for Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander people groups through the arrangement of socially sheltered
and deferential human services administrations.
 The idea of community control, social or culture rights, convictions, and estimations of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people groups must be regarded and joined into the
conveyance of human care services.
 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people groups ought to be managed similar
decisions and rights to won't or acknowledge treatment and care as other Australian
residents.
 Obligatory or mandatory kid health evaluations must exclude obtrusive procedure.
 The privileges of children must be secured and their families bolstered to accomplish
better wellbeing or health results.
 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people groups ought to be bolstered in techniques to
lessen and annul misuse and brutality, especially against ladies and youngsters (Jernigan,
D’Amico and Kaholokula, 2020).
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 Socially sheltered and deferential systems created by Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people groups to address misuse and viciousness, including sexual maltreatment
of kids, is upheld.
 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people groups ought to be associated with the
advancement of accreditation gauges for nursing as well as maternity care educational
plans (Juutilainen, Jeffrey and Stewart, 2020).
 The job of nursing and birthing assistance in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
group ought to be recognized and upheld by governments.
 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people groups should have impartial access to
nursing and birthing assistance instruction through an Australian Government
responsibility to facilitate motivations and help to draw in Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people groups to a vocation in nursing and maternity care.
 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical caretakers and maternity specialists ought
to be a piece of the educational plan and approach improvement at nearby, state, and
national levels.
 The Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives
(CATSINaM) are the pinnacle agent body.
 Financing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing must stay a need and be
lined up with recognized requirements (Kitching and et. al., 2020).
 The duty to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing is continuous.
 All medical caretakers and birthing assistants ought to approach supported training to
empower socially safe human services in all settings.
Furthermore, there are several campaign are conducted by government for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Health Equality. The main motive of conducting campaign is to close the
health as well as life expectancy gap among the Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander people
and non indigenous Australians within generation.
The close the gap coalition – In this group is developed of Indigenous and non indigenous health
as well as community firm in which there are nearby 200000 Australians are calling or forcing
government to take measurable as well as real action in order to achieve Indigenous health
equality by the end of 2030. These campaigns are supported by the ANMF in order to close
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appalling 17 years life expectancy gap by implementation of the Human Rights as well as equal
opportunity commission (HREOC). In respect of this Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commissioner’s suggest to attain health equality for respective people within a generation.
In addition to this, these all campaigns as well as programs are not seem as much
effective that it has to be because in current time there are many Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander society who still use traditional medicines, remedies, foods for the treatment. Moreover
they also more preferred to visit to traditional headers instead of going to medical professionals
or doctors (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Patient care guideline, 2014). There are
several Aboriginal and Torres Straits Island people or patients who experienced numbers of
challenges while managing or adhering to the prescribed medication or nursing care. In this the
factor which impact is financial or access issues or it may affect the organizational aspects of
practices that are conducted at the patient care.
Furthermore, culture safety is determine as an environment which is spiritually,
emotionally and socially safe as well as it must be physically safe for society. It is also essential
that there are no assault challenges or there is must be no denial of identity of who they are and
what they required (Leclerc, Miquelon and Rivard, 2020). There is several principles related to
cultural safety such as reflect own practices, minimize power differential among yourself and
others, engage in the conversation, and undertake process of decolonization and many others. For
this New Zealand Maori Midwives develop specific as well as appropriate cultural safety actor,
which is considered as unique cultural context. This will reflect as understanding as well as
appreciation of biculturalism and equal status of Mãoriand Europeans as nation’s founding
society. In addition to this, cultural safety and security is the viable nursing practice of an
individual or family from another culture that is controlled by that individual or family. It was
created in New Zealand, and its birthplaces are in nursing training. Hazardous cultural practice is
characterized as an activity which disparages the social personality of a specific individual or
family. Cultural security has four distinct standards. The first is to improve health status and
prosperity, the second improves the conveyance of health service and administrations, The third
spotlights on the distinctions among the individuals who are being dealt with and tolerating those
distinctions, and the fourth standard spotlights on understanding the intensity of wellbeing
administrations and how human services impacts people and families (Rasmus and et. al., 2020).
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In addition to this, The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum
Framework (CATSINaM, 2017) was discharged in 2017 which characterized as well as
deciphered guidelines for cultural safe practice in undergrad nursing and midwifery care
educational plan. As a result of an association with specialists from CATSINaM and the
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC), new practice norms for
medical attendants and birthing assistants were discharged in 2018 as a Code of Conduct for
socially safe practice (Sylliboy and Hovey, 2020). These measures expect medical caretakers to
know about how their own way of life, values, culture, perspectives, presumptions and
convictions impact their associations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
individuals, families, the network and partners. An Indigenous Australian scholastic,
comparatively states that socially skilled staff know about their own social mentalities and
convictions. Moreover, according to ANMAC authorize suitable nursing instruction with
enlistment endorsed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA). ANMAC sets
nine principles for nursing educational program inside the advanced education area; four identify
with instructing and finding out about Indigenous wellbeing and social security. Each course is
required to have a discrete subject on Indigenous wellbeing, history, wellbeing and culture and
unjust medical problems are to be incorporated all through the educational program. As of now
there are a low number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander showing staff at Universities and
a low number of non-Indigenous staff with the imperative degree of information and aptitudes.
So it can be determine that in order to provide quality services related to nursing for Indigenous
Australians, government can adopt cultural safety philosophy which is developed by New
Zealand Maori Midwives (Whitesell and et. al., 2020). In respect of that, government or other
agencies that provide nursing facilities and services to Indigenous Australians need to have
proper training that they can convince these people to take proper treatment because these people
are believe in traditional remedies for any medical issues (Exploring cultural safety with Nurse
Academics. Research findings suggest time to “step up”, 2020). Along with this, it is also
essential to that agencies as well as government provide education session to the Indigenous
Australians so that they can able to understand effectiveness of the nursing practices or activities.
This will also encourage taking suggestion for any medical issues which they face while
conducting their work. Moreover these agencies also provide financial support like New Zealand
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Maori Midwives so that Indigenous Australians can avail medical or nursing facilities in
effective manner.
CONCLUSION
By analyzing above mentioned points it can be determined and summarized that now a
day everyone is talking about equality and diversity which means there must be no
discrimination and every person treated in equal way. But in reality around the world there are
several communities who are treated unequal as well as they experienced huge situations related
to discriminations. This is generally take place on the basis of color, community, religion,
leaving standard and many more. Due to this these people also face difference situation or
discrimination in the nursing sector as medical professionals not treated them equally like others
due to which they faced several serious medical issues.
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