Workplace Discrimination for Nursing Practice

Running head: WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION FOR NURSING PRACTICE
Workplace Discrimination for Nursing Practice
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1WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION FOR NURSING PRACTICE
The discrimination prevailing in the workplace is a problem in the present world
despite the existence of different legislations that discourages these kind of practices.
Discrimination occurs in the event of someone being treated in an unfair and unfavourable
manner. It is a major concern for the healthcare professionals and it has been found that the
nurses are victims pertaining to discrimination. The abuse of nurses by their colleagues is
rampant within the clinical practice (Chadwick & Gallagher, 2016).It has been found that not
only their colleagues subject them to discrimination but also patients along with their
families. The discrimination can have an effect on the performance of the nurses along with
their psychological health. Principle of common good states that betterment of an individual
can pave the path for betterment of entire community (Pauly, 2014). Every individual is
entitled to have human dignity which is not diminished by that of age, race and culture. The
nurses have to experience sleep disorders along with mental health problem on account of
discrimination in the workplace. Poor patient care outcome acts as a challenge to that of
common good. The discrimination and bullying of the nurses compelled them to supress their
opinions within that of the workplace and it compromises the principle pertaining to
participation. It also goes against the principle of the element of subsidiarity. The structure
pertaining to healthcare system is hierarchical and the inequalities pertaining to distribution
of power results in discrimination that affects that of the common good. The students cannot
accommodate themselves properly within the environment of health care team on account of
inadequate communication (Wheeler, Foster & Hepburn, 2014). A large number of nursing
students quit the practice of nursing owing to humiliation and discrimination. The decreased
amount of funding leads to the creation of a stressful working environment.
The male nursing staff are treated in a different manner and they are not accepted at
the time of clinical placement. The men are entering the field of nursing in large numbers but
it has been found that the male students have to face gender stereotyping. Nursing has

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emerged to become representative of the population and retaining diverse kind of students
can prove to be helpful for the profession. The faculty members of nursing should become
sensitive to the subtle incidents pertaining to gender discrimination that can have a large
impact on the learning and success of the students. The biases pertaining to gender can be
minimized if the faculty becomes aware of the contributions of men to that of the profession
(Penprase et al., 2015). The nursing faculty should evaluate the texts that can help in
perpetuation of that of the male stereotype and gender politics should be highlighted that can
help in reducing the discrimination of students within that of the clinical practice. The
nursing faculties should highlight the arena of gender politics that can serve as a basis for the
oppression of nurses within that of clinical practice.
The nursing faculty should eliminate the practices that can create difference between
that of male and female nurse students. Formative evaluation can be used during that of
clinical rotation that can help in the evaluation of quality pertaining to clinical learning. The
isolation should be minimized in relation to male students by the providing of clinical
experience to the males (Mikkonen et al., 2016). There are different kinds of organisations
like Race for Health and Pacesetters that can be taken recourse to for minimizing
discrimination of the nursing students in clinical practice. There should be different kinds of
legislations that holds the health care accountable for the services that it provides and this can
help in eliminating discrimination in the workplace. Equality along with diversity legislation
should be embedded in the policies that can help in ensuring positive outcome for both the
staff along with the patients (Allan & Westwood, 2016).
There is a notion that prevails that the individuals would be able to master the
environment in the event of them working hard. This can often give rise to prolonged
exposure to that of stress that can bear a lot of physiological costs. The Catholic Social
Teaching lays stress on the aspect of human dignity and it propagates the idea that the human