Critical Evaluation Of Primary Health Care

During my placement during at an aged care facility, it was an important process to ensure that nursing interventions were carried out to ensure a respectful behaviour of a resident’s dignity, culture, values beliefs and

The Australian College of Midwives believes that it is the right of every pregnant woman to have access to continuity of care by a known midwife for her pregnancy, labour and early postnatal period. Midwives are the most appropriate primary care providers for healthy mothers and newborn babies and are able to refer to specialist medical care if the need arises (Hicks, Spurgeon & Barwell, 2003). Midwives must work within the competency standards enforced by The ANMC Australian Nursing & Midwifery Council (2006) in order to obtain and practice as a registered midwife in Australia. Competency 4 states Midwives should “promote safe and effective practice” (ANMC, 2006), this is achievable by providing Midwifery continuity of care to women and

The main ideas that Lisa Bourque Bearskin is stating in this article is that nurses need to be more sensitive to cultural care. They need to be aware of the issues in healthcare and strive to remove any barriers for certain groups, such as the first nations, and they need to disrupt any unequal relations in the social, political and historical aspect of healthcare. The way this can be done is by shifting their thoughts from cultural competence to cultural safety by way of relational ethics. Cultural competence is explained as the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that nurses need to use to care for cultural differences. Another framework described cultural competence as going through the stages of cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural skill, cultural encounter, and cultural desire. Cultural competency works very well when making policies in an agency but this view fosters a view of culture that does not encourage nurses to ask questions. (Bearskin, 2011) Cultural Competence causes different cultures to be put in a box, which cannot be done because cultures are constantly changing and every person’s culture is different. Culture is individual. Lisa Bourque Bearskin goes on to say that cultural safety is what nurses should use for ethical practice. In cultural safety, a nurse must strive to improve health care and its access for all people, while recognizing that there are many different cultures that have a right to be recognized. Bourque

According to the ANA Code for Nurses Provision 1, nurses must treat and respect every patient with dignity, regardless of

64). Reflecting one owns practice is the first principle, and it is a critical part for nurses because it is a vital characteristic for achieving professional competence (Mann, Gordon & MacLeod, 2009). While minimising the power gaps between the nurses and the Indigenous patients is the next principle (Atkins, De Lacey & Britton, 2014). An Indigenous client view nurses to have more power more than them, thus acknowledging the Indigenous practices lessen the power imbalance (Durey & Thompson, 2012). Thirdly, in implementing cultural safety it is actually engaging sensitively with the patient to gain understanding of their viewpoint (Atkins, De Lacey & Britton, 2014). Some health care providers lack true engagement to the Indigenous clients in the health care settings (Ware, 2013). For an instance, the use of medical jargons and abbreviations while talking, a culturally safe nurse includes simple language or explanation that the patient can understand easily (Skellet, 2012). Additionally, having an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers in health care facility can excellently build trust and can promote better engagement among Indigenous client (Hepworth et al,

The research has major significance to nursing practice. Nurses are in the forefront of the healthcare field. This unique position grants access to a variety of individuals coming from different backgrounds, with different health issues. One of the potential issues could be a parent who refuses to vaccinate their child out of the fear of it causing autism. Although the nurse’s role is not to force parents

The first three provisions relate to the nurse’s responsibility to treat everyone with dignity and respect regardless of that individual’s background, ethnicity, or the

We live in a very diverse nation and overcoming challenges related to cultural beliefs and preferences is a very common obstacle for health care workers today. In an article in The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing cultural diversity is defined as being more than just race,

It is very important for healthcare providers to be educated on the safety concern of vaccination. Proper protocols must be taken through evidence-based research on the issue of vaccination and the risk factors that can allow stakeholders better implementation on laws that can be beneficial to parents. The stakeholder’s in the healthcare field such as patients, healthcare providers, insurance companies, organizations, and those who enforce policy main concern are the safety of these patients. The decisions most of these stakeholders make can either benefit patients or affect them. For example, the consequences parents have if their child is not vaccinated. The mandatory law of children who are not vaccinated cannot enrolled in school is unfair to parents. I believe parents should not be penalized or forced for their child to be vaccinated. If all stakeholders can reunite through evidence based research on the topic of vaccinations risk concern it can cause a positive impact on parents and alternative ways children can prevent the side

In this Assignment, we will be looking at and discussing how the Nursing Midwifery Council’s Code (NMC) can guide the provision of person centred nursing care. What is the NMC’s Code? NMC Code is a list of professional requirements that which the nurses and midwives needs to adhere in order to practice in United Kingdom. This Code also helps the nurses and midwives to maintain their professional standards throughout their career. The Code is divided into four important sections. The sections are Prioritise people, Practise effectively and Preserve safety and Promote professionalism and trust (NMC 2015).

A controversial topic it is discussed in chapter seven, which is the autism spectrum disorder. I work at a WIC facility, and I have the opportunity to get in touch to many families. One day, I found a particular case. During the nutritional assessment, one of the questions is, we need to ask the immunization records, to verify if the vaccinations are updated. When I requested the immunization records for this particular family, the mother stated, I do not have an immunization records, because my child does not have immunity. I asked what was the reason? She stated, I am an epidemiologist, I know the consequences of the immunizations, which could be autism spectrum disorder. She said, since

NMC (2008) The Code: Standards of conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives. London: Nursing and Midwifery Council

Parents who delayed and refused vaccines also felt that they had a poor relationship with their child’s health care provider and the medical professionals who are in charge of their child’s vaccinations didn’t have their best interest at heart. Those who neither vaccinated nor delayed said their decision not to vaccinate was influenced by a practitioner of complimentary or alternative medicine and if they did vaccinate it was because a doctor or nurse influenced them. Reasons Why Parents Delay or Refuse Vaccines Parents who only delayed vaccination were more likely to do so because their child was ill at the time of recommended vaccination. Parents who delayed and refused vaccinations agreed

In Jordan, a 2-month-old infant, Sameer, came to the pediatric clinic with his parents for a well-child exam. Health care records showed that the baby was born at term and the pregnancy and delivery were uncomplicated. The exam and discussion went well until the physician started to bring up the subject of immunizations. The parents stated that they had decided to delay vaccination because they had a concern regarding the risk of autism and the side effects associated with vaccination. The parent stated that they read a lot on the internet websites about the complications associated with vaccines, and they believe that the natural immunity is better than vaccine immunity and that the vaccine is overwhelming the immune system. While trying

Venter asserts in the article that people who disobeys and do not abide by government directives to be immunized contribute to the emergence of worst cases of infectious diseases that their impact is so detrimental and far reaching that the purported link between immunization and autism. In the article, Venter affirms that the alleged association of autism and immunization is vague and delusive and those who choose not to immunize their children, in the view that they have a right to choose what to do, significantly contribute to the reemergence and spread of pandemic