Cultural Awareness in Aboriginal Health Care
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Running head: REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN NURSINGREFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN NURSINGName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
1REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN NURSINGCarpers’s fundamental ways of knowing is a systematic process which is helpful in classifyingthe different sources form which proefessionals can derive knowledge and belifes in professionalpractice (Carnago and Mast 2015 pp 389). The utility of it can be shown with the help of anevent and then sequentially describing the knowledge accordingly.Event description:An aboriginal patient was admitted to the ward by his son and daughter in law where theytold that their father is facing severe issues with the pain of osteoarthritis and increased bodyweight. He had been sleepless the entire night due to the pain and he was found to be very weak.He had been mostly unresponsive to the various questions asked to him and was not willing tocooperate with the nurses who were trying to ease him of the pain. The family members told thathe was humiliated as the nurses on duty in the previous hospitals did not maintain his dignity andpressurized their intervention on them. When he wanted to inquire about the intervention, theyinsulted him saying he was illiterate and a backward class and that he would have no idea even ifthey discuss their decisions with them. His fear for such humiliation had prevented him to visitother hospitals as well as and hence the situations with his osteoarthritis had become so worse.He was not responding to any questions asked and he was also not cooperating with thetreatment interventions given. His self-respect was overpowering his will to live and this createda challenge for the nurses on duty including me.Carper’s way of knowing:
2REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN NURSINGEmpirics:One can gain empirical knowledge form research as well as objective facts. The knowledgeusually remains systematically organized in a number of different general laws and also intheories (de Olivera and Toledo 2017 pp 33). The best ways by which empirical knowledge isgained is by the evidence based practices. While I faced the issue with the patient, I tried tosearch for articles that would help to match up with the case I was handling. The articles that Icame across helped me to develop an idea that in such cases, becoming aggressive with thepatients or forcing him to take interventions would have negative effects. Instead, developing atherapeutic relationship with him full of compassion and empathy may help him to develop truston the nursing professionals (Nielson et al. 2014 pp 95). Making him feel important by sharingwith him the interventions applied on him and also involving him in decision making wassuggested by the researchers who conducted qualitative studies on patients with similarsymptoms (Hole et al. 2017 pp 1668). Therefore this ways, evidence based practice helped me todevelop an idea about how to approach with the task assigned to me and helped me to act as aresponsible professional. From this kind of knowing, I learnt that I would use person centeredcare, value the patient’s decision making skills, discuss the treatment plan with him andconcentrate on developing a therapeutic relationships with him. However, I faced various issueswhile conducting this procedure as I was not rightly using the correct search terms and thereforeit took me a large amount o time to find correct evidences. Hence, is should develop my skill insearching engines for evidence based practices.
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