Reflection on Culturally Safe Nursing Practice

Running head: REFLECTION ON CULTURALLY SAFE NURSING PRACTICE
REFLECTION ON CULTURALLY SAFE NURSING PRACTICE
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note:

REFLECTION ON CULTURALLY SAFE NURSING PRACTICE1
Australian community is a multicultural community with people believing in different
cultural practice. One of the primary goal of the health professional like me is to understand a
person’s behaviour and belief to provide a culturally competent service, so that the individual
get the maximum benefit of the health access (Garneau & Pepin, 2015). During my nursing
practice, I have assigned to a community health care facilities where most of the people
belongs to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander or ATSI peoples. At that time, I have
experienced the necessity of the cultural safety to be particularly true while treating,
handling, and community with the people belonging from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples. The reason behind this observation is that the cultural belief of the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is significantly different form the non-
aboriginal Australian. Hence, in order to provide them maximum benefit to the ATSI peoples,
understanding their cultural belief and need is in paramount importance. Thence, in this
reflective essay I will be critically reflect upon my learning with relation to the culturally safe
nursing practice regards to the ATSI peoples.
During my student year, I have taught about the culturally competent nursing practice
while dealing with the culturally diverse people. Even though, I have been bit overwhelmed
by the experience I have felt while dealing with the ATSI peoples. From my experience
dealing with these people, I have learnt that their belief about the physical and mental well-
being is totally different. In their belief, they not only consider the physical and mental part of
their health, but also the spiritual aspect of their life (Gee et al., 2014). This is a new concept
to me as in my belief only considers the physical and mental part of the well- being. In
dealing with them, I have learnt to consider the spiritual aspect of their life as well, as the
spiritual aspect is intertwined with their life. In addition to that, they have also practiced
different type of alternative medicine which is not practiced and taught in the conventional
way of the western medicine. However, this alternative medicine is not hokum and they have