Nsb017 Assignment 1

NSB017 ASSESSMENT COVER SHEET 2016

STUDENT NAME: Nian Nian

STUDENT NUMBER: n9705821

TUTOR NAME: Christina Campbell

ASSESSMENT NAME/NUMBER: Reflective Essay – Assessment 1

ASSESSMENT DUE DATE: 04/04/2016

Step 1: 461 Words
Overall Reaction to material
Going into this unit, I personally thought I understood the meaning of the topic that was going to be covered in week 1-3. Which consisted of sociocultural considerations and nursing practice, cultural safety, culture worldview, lifeworld, social justice and Australian history and current health. However, after learning the deeper meaning of each topic I had a personal deeper understanding and realized how my perspectives of the topics were just a small aspect of the full

From the required readings each week, I’ve developed greater knowledge when it comes to culture and health care. I’ve recognized that it is easy to make the assumption of our patients without knowing their background which could greatly impact on how we treat them without even realizing. When I read a comment made by Mrs. Camfield to Nightingale stating that the native women of Australia were unlovable because they were “filthy, loathsome, revolting creature” (Nightingale, 1865, p.7) it made me visually picture how heartless we were towards Indigenous

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- Cox, L., & Taua, C. (2016). Australia: Colonisation and the Current Population Context. In Jarvis , C., Forbes , H., & Watt , E. (Eds.), Jarvis’s physical examination and health assessment (pp.38-59). Chatswood, NSW: Mosby.
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- Gee, G., Dudgeon,P., & Schults, C. (2014). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing. In Dudgeon, P., Milroy , H., Walker , R. (Eds.), Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice. Canberra, ACT: Kulunga Research Network.
- Jarvis, C., Forbes, H., & Watt, E. (2016). Chapter 4: Cultural Safety : Cultural Considerations. Jarvis’s physical examination and health assessment, 38-59. Retrieved from Queensland University of Technology Course Materials