Nurse Assignment Australia 2022

RUNNING HEAD: NURSING
NURSING
Name of Student
Name of University
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1 NURSING
As a nurse practicing in Australia, there are certain legal and administrative standards
that are to be followed and to be complied by, in order to deliver a patient centered care. The
community living people in Australia referred to as the Aboriginal people and Torres Strait
islander people, lives in the indigenous communities of Australia (Lane and Petrovic 2018).
The NMBA (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia) standards provide the nursing
guidelines, in accordance with the legal and health care framework of Australia. The
Aboriginal and Torres Strait community people, have been existing as a longest continuing
indigenous community of Australia, over the centuries now. The community living people of
Australia has certain health related issues and there are specific determinants of health that
pertains to these health issues, in Australia. Low socioeconomic status, lack of education,
cultural and communication gap between the government and the community groups, lack of
access of quality health care institution are the key reasons behind the presentation of certain
pathologies and diseases in these sociocultural frameworks (Slatyer et al. 2016). The overall
health care delivery to these impoverished indigenous communities is lacking even after
various sociocultural interventions related to health care delivery - has been formulated and
executed by the government and the non-governmental institutions. As a nursing
professionals, the knowledge of the culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is
vital for the professional growth and ethical service delivery to these communities. The chief
health issues associated with these indigenous communities of Australia are Diabetes
Mellitus, hypertension, cardio vascular diseases and AOD (Alcohol and other drugs abuse).
In order to counter these diseases – various health awareness programs and health
intervention (biomedical and psychological campaigns) has been designed to prevent and
manage the health care issues associated with these indigenous communities. In order to
deliver the services, a culturally competent communication and collaborative approaches with
the other disciplinary professions - is required to manage the community health issues.

2 NURSING
As far the history of Aboriginal culture goes, the traditional system of healing has
been their integral part of holistic care to the people living in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
islander community. There had been history of cultural violence against the Aboriginal
community in the early 1900s that last till 1970s. The children who were born in the
Aboriginal community in this period of time, were abducted from their families (in
accordance with some government laws in that point of time, in the Australian history) – in
order to break the community ties and weaken the cultural bonds of the Aboriginal
community. This led to much distrust amongst the Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander
people with the legal framework of Australia and they were consciously isolated from the
mainstream modern (urban) culture of Australia (Hart, Cavanagh, and Douglas 2015). There
had been various reconciliation and community empowerment laws, undertaken by the
government from late 1970s to the recent times in order to make up for the previously done
cultural disruptions (NITV 2019). These campaigns includes both heath prevention and
health management campaigns to counter the health problems (type 2 diabetes mellitus,
cardiovascular disease) and nursing, as a profession, plays a very vital role in the delivery of
these health empowerment programs to the community people (McDonald et al. 2018). The
history of holistic care and socio cultural oppression of the Aboriginal community is
important that it should be known to the nurses practicing in a community health setting of
Australia. The cultural knowledge would be empowering for me as a future nurse, while I
develop my culturally competent communication with the community living people
(McMillan, Biles and Stanley 2018). According the NMBA code of conducts for the nurses,
the first and the foremost rule is to ‘practice legally’ and as a nurse, I would comply with all
the regulations related to my profession with obedience and dedication in order deliver a
‘person centered care’ in a community setting (Hunt et al. 2015). Engaging with people of the
community with respectful and dignified approach is critical to nursing service delivery to the