A Report on Sally Goold's Leadership and Nursing Contributions

This report provides a biographical outline of Sally Goold, a significant figure in Australian nursing, highlighting her contributions to Indigenous healthcare and nursing leadership. It discusses her early life, education, and establishment of the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern, along with her efforts to promote cultural safety and support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses. The report reflects on the attributes of effective leadership evident in Goold's career, such as dedication, commitment, and professionalism, and emphasizes the importance of these qualities in addressing healthcare challenges. Furthermore, it delves into the author's personal learnings from researching Goold's work and how this knowledge can be applied in their own professional practice, particularly in understanding the needs of diverse communities and promoting equality in healthcare. The report concludes by underscoring the lasting impact of historical nursing leaders like Sally Goold in shaping the nursing profession and improving patient outcomes.

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................1
Biographical outline of the nursing leader.............................................................................1
Attribute of effective leader being evident in the selected leader..........................................1
Significant contribution of the leader towards nursing profession.........................................2
Reflection on learnings from the research and execution of knowledge in professional
practice...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
The empathetic services related to healthcare are being entrenched with the nursing
profession which has offered different high-minded and worthy nursing leaders. The history
of nursing with the occurrence of Florence Nightingale using the transformational leadership
in this occupation, has accompanied her career to a position of daemon between the Crimean
public and outside the limitations. Since, then the nurses have been given training to become
a frontline warrior particularly in the condition of natural disasters, pandemic or war
(Corporal and et.al., 2020). Based on this, the current paper aims to focus on one of such
commendable leaders by the history od nursing with a countless track record for her service
along with the contribution to the profession. The chosen leader for this paper is “Sally
Goold”. The paper will emphasize on brief biographical outline of the life of the nursing
leader and will reflect on learning from this research.
MAIN BODY
Biographical outline of the nursing leader
Sally Goold OAM was the senior Australian of the year in the year 2006 and an
innovator for native nursing in Australia. She was the youngest of seven children and was in
Naarandera in the south-western New South Wales however the family shifted to Sydney
when Goold was also quite young. Alike to different other native children, she also recalls
being hospitalized variety of times and for long as she could recollect, Sally Goold desires to
become a nurse. At the age of 16, she started applying for undertaking a nursing training at
the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and she was also accepted there. She then grabs the
position of first Indigenous or aboriginal nursing student in New South Wales and afterwards
the first indigenous nurse. In the year 1971 after she has been loomed by Fred Hollows as
well as Dulcie Flower, she was able to set up Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern
(Ellinghaus and Judd, 2021).
Attribute of effective leader being evident in the selected leader
The high level of dedication, commitment as well as professionalism are some of the
effective attributes of Sally Goold in the nursing profession. The nurses in their occupation
are anticipated of delivering their accountabilities as well as obligations with greatest
profession. In addition, they are also projected of delivering their duties with full care as well
as concern at the time of attending the patients and must manage the prearranged medicine at
the accurate time and dosage. Furthermore, the value-based practices of Sally have reflected
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the leadership feature the nurse which is also one of the important standards for attaining the
best level of experimental exercise.
There were different examples which depicts the manner in which the leader Sally
Goold has reflected the attribute of dedication, commitment and professionalism. However,
the most important among them was strong desire for succeeding and becoming a voice of
Aboriginal nurses. Soon after finishing of the graduation, Sally makes an application for
doing midwifery at King George V Memorial Hospital (Hill, 2014). On the accomplishment
of this degree, she occupied the position of staff nurse the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Her
professional life progressed quite well however she was very concerned and upset that it
seemed to be satisfactory to be an Aboriginal RN unless and until he or she did not proclaim
themselves too much and if they are justly obedient. If they did all that they are being
tolerated. Additionally, she also didn’t accept the invisibility of the Aboriginal nurses she
brought up the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses (CATSIN) with the
support of 28 indigenous RNs and Australian Nursing Federation. This movement of her was
quite historic. With this, she augmented the recruitment as well as retention of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people into the occupation of nursing and also bringing modification in
the nursing curriculum by involving the units on history, health and culture of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander.
Significant contribution of the leader towards nursing profession
The Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern was established by Sally Goold in the
year 1971 and then she shifted to Queensland and was selected to a lectureship in the School
of Nursing at Queensland University of Technology. Even she also performed duties for the
Queensland Health Department and there she was a manager of nursing services in the
Aboriginal Health Program. She also completed her Master’s degree in the year 1995
examining the details for enduring very few amounts of Indigenous nurses which is
accredited to tenacious discrimination along with absence of support services for the students.
To this, Sally Goold also formed Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses in
the year 1997 along with this prearranged its first Executive Director (Vanstone, 2014). In
addition to this, she also got the award for individual nursing and Midwifery superiority
identifies the successes of an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Nurse or Midwife who
significantly contributed in regards with nursing as well as midwifery occupation and the
health of aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australians by her different work.
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Other than this, Sally Goold was also being regarded as an inspirational as well as
encouraging mention of the nurses in Australia, particularly those from the communities of
the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. The nursing leader Sally Goold has also discoursed
the cultural changes which has helped in establishment of cultural safety as well as care for
the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander along with the service user. Furthermore, the
practices related to the safety of culture within the atmosphere of the workplace also focussed
on the authorization of the decision making by the patients in her therapy as well as
treatment. Additionally, the code of conduct as applicable by the nurses also helps in
reflecting the main involvement of the nursing leader in the practice which execute the
principle of producing an ethnically harmless place for the practitioners of nursing without
the atmosphere and surroundings of intimidation or else annoyingness by the nurse managers
plus leaders (Thackrah and Thompson, 2018).
Reflection on learnings from the research and execution of knowledge in professional
practice
As per the procedure of Nursing and Midwifery Board Aphra, the professional
practice is required to be capable enough in addressing the problems related to healthcare as
well as patients. My professional individuality at the time of evaluating the biographical
outline of the nursing leader accumulated the notion of being knowledgeable in the practice
of nursing. As mentioned in the above section, Sally Goold has to gather the courage,
motivation and dedication for defeating the issues related to racism and discrimination. In
Australia, the problems in relation with the nursing training and education has been
discoursed by the federal government by the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law
which places more focus on the nurse practitioners. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery
Council has endorsed the attribute of competence via higher education, empowering nurses to
be capable enough through Masters' Degree programmes to become qualified for being
enumerated nurses. This characteristic of nursing aids in case analysis and supports
physicians in achieving the greatest possible patient outcomes in terms of health. My capacity
to understand the caring concept ingrained in this profession has grown as a result of the
scope of expanding my knowledge based on the 6C's, which are capability, care, concern,
communication, courage as well as commitment (Goold and Liddle, 2015).
In addition to this, I have also acquired understanding by varied nursing journals
along with the lab preparations which significantly designates the areas that we as a
practitioner needs to be skilled for addressing such as the management on sanitation, pain
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management, management of wound, safety of the service users, respiratory disease along
with cardiovascular disease management and recording of the information of the patients at
the regular intervals. Furthermore, the authority to discourse my concern with the services
supports me in empowering the accountabilities and obligations of the nurses where, in case
of such discrimination, racism or any form of defunct, one can voice their issues on a
specified platform. Other than this, the current pandemic has also been a lesson in
masquerade for the whole globe to prepare and equip with the supply equipment in relation
with safety, health and PPE kits which are quite necessary for the nurse practitioner. This
incident also supported me in comprehending the needs of the safety protocols that a nursing
practitioner is required to make sure. The courage, enthusiasm, dedication and commitment
needed to defeat any issue in this profession and for attaining a high order of aware is quite
exemplary and this I have a habit of following in a varied manner through honing up my
skills as well as hovering the issues as and when needed to convey honesty as well as
harmony in exercise.
CONCLUSION
To conclude it can be said that historical nursing leaders have surfaced the trail of
robust philosophies as well as practices for the specialized practitioners. Further, there main
contribution to the occupation has helped the growth in the nursing occupation through
consideration of all the required protocols which might result into optimistic outcome for the
patients and the service users.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Corporal, S.D., Sunderland, N., O’Leary, P. and Riley, T., 2020. Indigenous Health
Workforce: exploring how roles impact experiences in Higher Education. International
Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies. pp.101-122.
Ellinghaus, K. and Judd, B., 2021. Imperial literacy, choice and F.W. Albrecht’s Lutheran
experiments in Aboriginal education in post-war Central Australia. Journal of the
History of Education Society.
Goold, S. and Liddle, K., 2015. In Our Own Right: Black Australian Nurses' Stories. 1sted.
Routledge.
Hill, J., 2014. Defying racism to pursue her dreams. Sunshine Coast Daily.
Thackrah, R.D. and Thompson, S.C., 2018. Applying a Midwifery Lens to Indigenous Health
Care Delivery: The Contribution of Campus Learning and Rural Placements to
Effecting Systemic Change. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research. 50(4). pp.179-188.
Vanstone, A., 2014. National Indigenous Council Appointed. Minister for Families,
Community Services and indigenous Affairs.
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