Nursing Care of Indigenous Australians and Cultural Safety Philosophy

Indigenous
Health
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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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