Diversity in Nursing: An Analysis of Healthcare in Australia

This report provides an overview of diversity in nursing within the Australian healthcare context. It examines various aspects of diversity, including cultural diversity, disability, age, and sexual orientation, highlighting the challenges and opportunities associated with each. The report discusses the impact of unconscious bias, marginalization, and discrimination on healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. It further explores concepts such as cultural safety, cultural competence, and the importance of effective communication and understanding cultural differences in nursing practice. The report analyzes factors that influence cultural care, including religious beliefs, folk medicine, and ethnocentrism, and suggests strategies to minimize bias and promote inclusive healthcare practices. The report emphasizes the need for language interpreters, effective body language, and the importance of creating a culturally safe environment for both patients and healthcare providers. The report also touches on the need for awareness of cultural imposition and cultural ignorance.

DIVERSITY IN NURSING
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REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

Diversity is Australia
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Australia is one of the top three resettlement countries. Every year many refugees comes
illegally in Australia. Many of them face detention for 1 or 2 years. This info graph clearly
explains that most of the immigrants are either asylum seekers and some of them are refugees.
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According to facts info-graphic 4 out of 10 Australians of 18 years and above age are either
disabled or have a long- term health condition. Approximately 94% of disabled people have
support required for living but others have to work and face daily difficulties for living like
difficulty in using public transport. In fact, 1out of 4 disabled people are sexually assaulted.
Daily difficulties result in mental health problems due to which their productivity is impacted.
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According to facts info-graphic, Australia is one of those countries that have highest life
expectancies. More than 80 percent of old aged Australians rely upon their pensions and due to
this 1 out of 4 every Austrian live in poverty. In fact, $74.5 billion each year is contributed in
unpaid voluntary and caring work of old people.
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According to facts info-graphic, 11 out of 100 people in Australia are of diverse sexual
orientation. In past few years same sex couples have approximately tripled. Approximately 1.7
percent of people born in Australia are intersex but still many lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and
intersex people still hide their identity due to which they either suffer depression or become a
victim of bullying at school
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Marginalized is a process of making a group of people less important to a secondary position or
when a group of people are grouped together as second class citizens. In Australia 1 out of 4
Australians are born oversees and 1 out of 2 have oversees born parents. Such people from
different communities like UK, Italy etc. are at risk of marginalization because as they are not
considered as original citizen of Australia and are categorised as secondary citizens.
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According to facts info-graphic, In Australia every year migrants are increasing who have
oversees born parents or are themselves born oversees. Due to this approximately 26 percent of
people speak language other than English. In fact it is said that Australia is home to world’s
oldest continuous cultures. It has been observed that migrants contribute $9.7 billion of economy
to Austral in last 50 years.
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Unconscious bias is a kind of social stereotype about a certain group of people who are outside
their own conscious awareness. It is a kind of learned stereotype automatic, unintentional, deeply
ingrained and universal.
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 Affinity bias i.e. tendency of people to connect with people with similar interest, background
and experience.
 Confirmation bias i.e. to draw conclusion about a person on the basis of their personal
details, beliefs.
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We quite often specify someone’s race even if it is not necessary. For example: Asian doctor
etc. In our daily routine lives as well we specify someone’s race like whenever we are addressing
a doctor, lawyer, teacher etc.
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Specifying someone race is a kind of biasness because we form a kind of perception about a
person without even meeting them and this is majorly because of the people we grow up with or
live with
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Yes, many times I have assumed that someone is good or bad at a certain activity because of
their race. For example, Asian people are always thought as intelligent people especially in terms
of maths or science. So, I have often judged a student if he/ she is an Indian. That means they are
good at maths or science. Or most of the Asian are poor.
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It is a kind of bias or prejudice because we are differentiating those people as compared to other.
Without even getting to know the person I have assumed that if they are Asian then they are poor
which on a contrary might be wrong.
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No, I have never asked a person where they are really from but have many times thought of
asking only if they do not have looks or appearance of a local person.
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It is a kind of bias or prejudice because just on the basis of someone’s look I tend to see them
differently and assume that they are not a citizen of Australia.
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Discrimination cab e defined as a kind of prejudice or unfair treatment against people on grounds
of race, age, or sex, disability etc.
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Different ethnic group people need to submit different percentage of more application as
compared to local candidate for getting a job interview.
 Chinese name: They are required to submit 68 percent more applications
 Middle Eastern name: They are required to submit 64 percent more applications.
 Italian name: they are required to submit 12 percent more applications
18 Stigma have been the phenomena which set the person of group of people to be different
part form each other’s on their bass of devaluating belief and attitude. This have the causing of
causes fear, avoidance and rejection.
19 Disability associated with mental illness is a major contributor to the global burden of
disease which turned out to be stigma as negative ways of their distinguishing characterises or
the personal transients that is thought to be.
20 culture have been the umbrella term which have the encompassing with social behaviours
and the norm which tend to be find in human societies as , as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts,
laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.
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21 There have been the debate resolving as the language of the body stems from the culture
is being learned. This have the simply the part of human’s repertoires that’s is the existing the
birth and innate.
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This have the heaths in the erm of enduring the ideals or belief suites which is the prose
have been socially and personally committed.
The culture around illness have systems to the belief term cause of illness, how is treated
or cured and who have the need to involve in process.
This have envisioned aroused the examples shoeing the wellbeing and investing in
wellness’ this is helpful in eliminating the barriers and multiple composes of health.
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Person orientation refers to ability to identify others. In this there is high order cognitive
function that may fluctuate with illness. It can cause conflict as person may not be able to
identify other in correct way. So, due to that it may lead to fluctuate illness in not providing care
services in effective way.
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Complementary and alternative medicine
It conflicts with delivery services as including alternative medicine will interrupt the way
of providing services. the people may prefer to take those medicine instead of health services
offered to them.
Religious beliefs
Here, it might be possible that health services delivered are not as per values and beliefs
of people. so, they do not prefer to avail those services as it is against their religious beliefs.
Thus, it will led to create conflict in it.
Folk medicine
In this use of herbal medicine may be preferred by people instead of health services.
also, there is change in way of using folk medicine and health services. in some the use of
medicine will conflict delivery health services.
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Ethnocentrism- to evaluate other culture as per preconception
Bias and prejudice- is known as the incorrect or unjustified attitude towards a social group or an
individual While Bias is consider as an inclination against a concept ,group or an individual
Discrimination is termed as a unfair treatment of person as well as group that are relied on the
characteristics such as gender, race, sexual orientation or age. It is the one that creates
misunderstanding as well as fear among people. Discrimination also done on the color of skin
also
Steterotying- to present thing as stereotype
Culture imposition- it begins with self-awareness of our own values and biases, and is fortified
by seeking cultural knowledge from others
Cultural ignorance is done when an individual shows lack of knowledge or understanding
within terms of society, history ,government and many more. Such lack of knowledge can be
easily understanding as a lack of respect for the nation or cultre as well as even ethnocentrism
within more extreme cases.
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To minimise influence of personal, professional and organisational bias
Interpret behaviour of other in their own way.
By using communication and language patterns of others
To address a group rather than individual
To respect and hold differences
To work with social hierarchy as developed by others.
Become comfortable with silence
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Here, culture care theory is been described that is as follows
It reflect the current and early nursing practices and also shows experience and creative thinking
that is related to field of nursing and health. There are some cultural care factor which impact
on human expression related to illness, well being, etc it state that human care is what makes
people and give dignity to them and inspire to get well and help others. But the theory predict
that there is no curing without caring but caring exits without curing.
The tenets are
The meaning of culture care is diverse and share common universal attributes
The factors that influence culture care is social, environmental, etc..
Generic folk and health ethics varies as per environment and highly influence on health
outcomes
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Well delivered points
Care services was delivered in effective way
Effective communication with patient
Not well delivered
There was discrimination on basis of culture care
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Cultural safety have been there effective level of nursing practises of the person and the
family who have the belonging to another culture. Tis will have the clear level of determinations
as the family and the important aspect for nursing practices. This will be helpful in improving
the hatch status and important perspectives.
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The cultural behaviour is been exhibited by humans which have the clear level of
dependence of the basis of species. This is considered to be the extrasomatic or extragenetic.
The biculturalism have the describing of the states having or inheriting two or more cultures or
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two of more ethnic tradition in perfect manner. This have their conflict between Anglophone
and Francophone Canadians
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yes, there is the need for the language interpreter in there Queensland Health’s
Community Profiles for Health Care Providers resource as this is there community nursing
support which have their proving there ow intensity nursing support services to have proper
communications.
There is need to have eye contact have the ensuring the signals to the client having the
friendly and welcoming relations as to maintain the smiling and good postures. There is need to
make the appropriate eye contact which may have indication of best service.
There is need to have the avoidance of the concertation faces intends of the smiles along
with wimpy handshakes. This is are majorly misunderstood. In addition to their breaking there
continuous eye contacts and nervous level of gesture which make the situation uncomforted.
There is need to have effective body language and emotion gesture along with the
language of care is need to be well impuissant treated to the services user.
No, the basically the service user were never been uncomfortable working e the certain
genders. There have need to make the usage of effective services which provide solution to
issues.
No there is no need to have the phrasings any reissuing accommodations the workplaces
which have arising from nature of religious as these are all protected by the discrimination laws
such as race, age, or gender, religion is not a trait one is born with, but a system of beliefs.
There have been the several beliefs by the culture which have the caller impacts of there
pasting the effective level of nursing to the services user. The family have the caller impact in
decision making.
Numerous individuals who identify as disabled express disability culture as artists, poets,
and actors in theatre groups and can be found in all regions of the world.
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Race
This is the dynamic concepts which have the group identification on basis on gender, class,
ethnicity, religion, age, sexual orientation or disability.
Racism
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Racism is nothing new which have been the pervasive withing the western society for
centurions tainting making the people inferior to their race.
Prejudices
This have been identified as the belief on their people on bases of on their religion,
ethnicity, race, gender, handicap or any other factors. This ca has positive and negative impact.
Stereotyping
This shebeen the account of there on the basis of the individual’s experiences with the
groups m pattern of communications and intergroup conflict which clear the major level of
diversity.
Discriminations
This have the clear meaning of there to have basins among the service users on the babies
of the different factor.
Casuals Racism
This have been identified as over the last couple of years in media coverage reporting on
more extreme forms of interpersonal racism, such as racist slang and racist diatribes on public
transport
Ethnocentrism
This is about the superiority complex have the benefit of taking their own culture higher
and superiors.
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 There should be the more usages of “I” statement and masking here proper managing
there relation and respect everyone’s.
 To have the clarification of the stances so that’s tehri is less level of
misunderstandings.
 To have their better and persuasive effects have there quite tackle highking the
concern.
 Here should be allowing to have the certain group to make there feeling of empathy
with another plight.
 Have the control over with mouth over the situation of aggressiveness
 To have the beer understanding and listening o each other perspectives.
 T have proper cares being online.
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CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Online
www.psychlotron.org.uk/newResources/criminological/A2_AQB_crim_typoProfiling.pdf
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