Overcoming Racism and Prejudices in Nursing Care for Aboriginal Patients

Running head: RACISM ISSUE
RACISM ISSUE
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RACISM ISSUE
Description:
From the early age of my life, I had seen people in my surrounding to talk about
aboriginal people. They used to say that they are uneducated and do not have proper ways of
living. They used to say that they have no education and are socially backward people.
Moreover, in my high school, I used to see that aboriginals were not included in groups and their
skin color was laughed at. From that time onwards, staying between such people had also
resulted me in developing prejudices where I also did not like them at all. After growing up and
studying the module in a detailed manner, I came across the main background of their poor
health and poor socioeconomic background. I developed the idea that my prejudices and my
racist feeling were baseless. This module helped us to learn about the history of colonization and
the ways Europeans had destroyed the lives of such people by tormenting them and torturing
them physically and mentally. Therefore, stigmatizing them on the basis of color, their health
condition, their economic condition and others are completely baseless and their exploitation
over the years had made them the way they are. Thereby this module completely helped me to
develop a new perspective of me on the aboriginals and helped me overcome my prejudices.
Feeling:
The module made me very happy that I successfully overcame my prejudices and racist feeling. I
was overwhelmed by the way the module helped us to develop knowledge about the various
ways by which they can be provided culturally safe care and develop their lives for betterment. I
was blessed that before treating any patient of aboriginal background, this module prepared me
and developed my cultural competency.

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Evaluation:
I learnt from the module that culturally incompetent practices of nursing professionals
affect the dignity of the patient and make them deeply hurt. The patient feels uncomfortable with
if the nursing professionals exhibit prejudice and cultural biasness. These affect their ego and
self-esteem and that is why they may never seek for western healthcare services ever. (Mollay &
Grootjans, 2014). Moreover, the racism one individuals feels would make other aboriginals to
avoid visiting western healthcare centre for treatment as they may feel that they would get same
treatment (Kelaher, 2014). Therefore, this module has indeed helped me to develop huge
knowledge about the racism issues faced by them and the effects associated with it. The good
part was that the entire module helped me to realize that I also had racist feelings previously
within me against the Aboriginals. I had cultural biasness against them that could not have
allowed me to provide culturally competent care to native patient and might have subjected them
to stigmatization. This module helped me to develop my skills to overcome such prejudices and
provide best care to patients (Bastos et al., 2017).
Analysis:
Aboriginals are exposed to racism for a large number of years. The prejudice of racism
affects them mentally where they tend to develop depression, anxiety, great if expression and
many others (Wain et al., 2016). Sadness, hopelessness and helplessness are three factors that
have always been intricately associated with your condition in the nation since the time of
commission (Durey et al., 2016). After discussion with the mentor and going through different
evidence based articles, I noted down the different aspects of culture, that I need to follow in