Reflective Essay On Health And Social Care Practice

Introduction: Our culture has influenced the way how we conduct the work, our behavior, and style, our language use, our problems and challenges solving nature and how we make relationships with others. People are different in their ethnicity, tribe, race, and religions and have their own identity. The knowledge of cultural safety is crucial for health practitioner while attempting care in a practical setting. Cultural safety is about the behavior of health practitioner and their attitude toward patients creating the strong relationship which provides a useful structure for analyzing and proper understanding of health care when working with different people in daily practice (Richardson , 2011). It is a challenge for the health practitioner

Whether people differ from their racial groups, ethnicity, religion, and tribe, we have to treat them equally and provide equal health services (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia [NMBA], 2018). As far as I am concerned, there is no one different in regards to sex, culture, and country in healthcare settings. Thus I have learned that I have to care people regardless of their cultural background. Secondly, I believe in good karma. As we born, we have to die. Therefore, as human being we have to do some good karma in our lives to get a new good life after we die; to harm other is a sin as I learned from my culture. This belief will empower my ability care patient without any harm. Thirdly, I believe in freedom. That means we must have the freedom to write, read, speak, worship and so on. If we think something is wrong we must have right to speak about it which I learned from my culture. This might help me to know about patient’s beliefs and their determination. In some communities religious belief is very important means of social interaction, so it is very hard to go against their belief during treatment. For instance, the patient may reject to take any medicines or seek treatment. In those cases, the nurse should know the method to handle such situations in a culturally safe way. As I am Hindu, so I do get up early in the morning, have a shower and pray to god.If somebody

My parents told me that lying all the time gives us pleasure and satisfaction at the moment but later, the same untrue statement will result in the worse situation in our life. It will help me to build my confidence, increase willpower and introduce myself as the best person towards other in my future nursing career. Additionally, It will lead me to form a bond with the patients as it can provide mutual benefit to me and the patient. From my childhood, I have been taught to be polite, respectful and behaving well from my parents and teachers. For getting respect ourselves in the society, we have to respect others. Hard work is the leading success that what my parents used to say. They always used to work hard. As my father always worked in countryside and we met him once a year. Thus, I knew that to be a successful person we need to work get until we get our destination. In future, in a clinical environment, I will have to work hard to be a successful health practitioner. As a health practitioner, I have to interact effectively with different people as well as make a good impression. To be a culturally good practitioner, communication is the other character I have learned my culture. It is a tool that is necessary to recognize the diversity(Drysdale and Ellender). For instance, English is the