Selection of Client from a Cultural Group

Discuss about the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry.

A culturally safe healthcare environment is full of challenges, assault, as well as refutation of the individuality of the care receivers of  healthcarservice. When it comes to indigenous people across the world, several negative experiences of them associated with the contemporary healthcare system has been recorded. Culturally safe healthcare is referred to a concept, which had emerged in the late 1980s as a framework for developing a suitable healthcare service for culturally diverse populace. According to researcher, culturally safe healthcare refers an environment that secures social, spiritual, and emotional safety of the consumers of healthcare service (The Health of Aboriginal Children and Young People in Western Australia., 2015). The chief reasons behind the mentioned issues are the fact that in majority of cases, healthcare service providers tends to diminish, disempowered as well as demean the cultural identity and well being of an indigenous service users. In this essay, the analysis and discussion of methods for application of culturally safe care on the client has been   performed with cultural competency. The thesis statement of this essay is ‘Culturally Safe’ nursing care framework is the most effective framework for treating indigenous healthcare service users prioritising their social, cultural and emotional needs. The research parameters that will be used in this essay are Biomedical Treatment Framework and the Culturally Safe Trans-cultural nursing framework.

In this paragraph, the method of selection of client from a particular cultural group will be discussed. Being a healthcare service provider of a popular healthcare home located in Australia, I am currently working with the aboriginal residents of Australia. During my service period, I noticed that health inequity exists among the Aboriginal Australians. In accordance to the professional code of conduct of nursing care statement number four, every nurse should provide care with dignity while respecting culture, values and beliefs of the patients during the care providing process (NMBA, 2008). One of the chief reasons behind the mentioned inequity is the cultural barriers that exist between the healthcare service providers and the healthcare service users. The culture and lifestyle of aboriginal Australians are highly different from that of the non-indigenous Australians. Poverty, lack of education, unhygienic lifestyle along with excessive consumption of tobacco has given birth to several healthcare issues suffered by the Aboriginal people. In this situation the adults are suffering significantly from healthcare issues like diabetes, obesity and various lung and cardiovascular diseases. On the other hand, the aboriginal children are majorly found to be suffering from Asthma, Chronic health conditions, Rheumatic Heart disease, disabilities and oral health issues because of their poverty and lack of education. During my practice, I come across a 14 years old indigenous female healthcare service user who is suffering from Acute Rheumatic Heart disease. The mentioned diseases is caused by the by Group A Streptococcus (GAS) bacteria and the mentioned bacteria are found to affect children more compared to Adults. According to survey, more than 68 percent of the Aboriginal children and adolescents are found to be suffering from bacteria diseases caused by the by group A Streptococcus bacteria (Rothstein, Heazlewood & Fraser, 2018). During the 20^th century GAS diseases had greatly decreased the Aboriginal population. Hence it is highly important to eradicate the disuse from the Aboriginal community. During the Admission of Ms.X , I found that she is unwilling to get admitted in the healthcare home cultural barrier and competence being two of the major reason. Hence, I have chosen Ms. X from the Australian aboriginal community for the discussion on cultural safety healthcare.

Healthcare Issues Impacting Ms. X’s Wellbeing

In this paragraph, the healthcare issue that has the potential to impose impact on Ms.X has been discussed. According to researchers one of the chief reasons behind diseases caused by Group A Streptococcus Bacteria is unhygienic lifestyle (Parker, & Milroy, 2014). Considering the fact that like a majority of Aboriginal Children, Ms. X also leads a highly unhealthy life style, she bears the risk of suffering from superficial infection, invasive disease, the autoimmune squeal of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN) (Kingsley et al., 2013).

Another healthcare issue that may often found in the children of Aboriginal community is ear disease. According to survey, more than 38 percent of the Australians children of age range 2 to 14 years old are fund to be suffering from various bacterial infections and fevers due to their lack of knowledge in hygiene cleanliness and healthy lifestyle (May, Bowen, & Carapetis, 2018). The aboriginal parents face lack of knowledge and guidance about the healthy lifestyle while having some misbelieves and social stigma that leads children and young people to be more likely to be hospitalised due to lack of transport, healthcare service distribution because of their geographical position compared to the non-indigenous children. The chief reason behind this is lack of safety measure in home as well as workplace is poor income level, lack of efficient healthcare access, poorly facilitated rural clinics giving rise to incidents unhealthy food, unhygienic water consumption, fire, burns, and scalds. Considering the fact, that Ms X is also habituated in the above mentioned lifestyle, cultural and social influences she also suffers from the risk of getting severely injured or chronic bacterial bronco or cardiac diseases.

Miss X has a pathophysiological report for having streptococcal Pharyngitis and Impetigo from the last one or two years, which was nearly untreated because of the negligence of the parents and other guardians. Pharyngitis is a disease caused by various bacterial infections, which is caused by group A Streptococcus bacteria. On the other hand, a typical bacterial skin infection named Impetigo is caused by either Staphylococcal or Streptococcus bacteria (Ball, Bindler & Cowen, 2013). Any of these bacterial diseases can spread by the physical contact, nasal discharge and saliva from another infected person. However, all of these bacterial diseases can be treated with antibiotics. ARF/RHD or Acute Rheumatic Heart is a Rheumatic Heart disease mainly caused by long term untreated or undertreated bacterial infection. However, regular intake of antibiotics and other supportive medication process without having any break can solve these issues entirely. However, she has failed to receive some antibiotics that allow the bacteria to spread across the defence mechanism of her body (Coyne, 2015). As an expected outcome, she was experiencing sore throat from last 2 to 3 weeks while also experiencing migratory joint pains including acute joint pain in her knees, elbows, ankles and shoulders. Along with that, she also had the body temperature of 38 degree Celsius that is noticeably higher than normal temperature.  All of these symptoms are directing referring the overwhelmed infection of the bacteria that gradually has lead to ARF/RHD. In this situation regular oral or injected antibiotics intake can improve the condition. At the same, it also needs complete bed rest and adequate healthy diet, emotional as well as metal support. As it affects the cardiac tissues, ignorance of this type of condition can be lethal (Gibbs, 2013).

Nursing Frameworks for Developing Culturally Safe Healthcare

To analyse the needs of the patient the theory of various nursing frameworks with the procedure of implementation with effective cultural competence in nursing practice is chiefly important. As per the NMBA or Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, some standard nursing models regulate the affectivity of regular healthcare practice. In traditional nursing framework, the major focus of a medical professional is described as the health and wellbeing of the patient that increase the cultural competence of nursing practice. On the other hand, some modern and advanced alternate nursing practice argues about the traditional theories and operational framework in nursing practices. One of the most common theoretical models that are used to develop the standard nursing framework is Biomedical Care of nursing (Jackson et al., 2013). This theoretical model emphasises the physical and psychological wellbeing of the patient while showing dignity to the patient’s culture, social background as well as perspective and attachment pattern. The standard roles and responsibility framework provided by NMBA follows most of this conventional nursing theory which includes taking care of patients pain threshold while treating and diagnosis, keeping the patient under continuous monitoring, regular diagnosis of patient physical as well as metal health, preservation of healthy and Hygienic environment around the patient and other major nursing activities. On the other hand, another major nursing theory argues against this traditional nursing conceptual framework. The foundation of Culturally Safe or Transcultural nursing theory has made on the cultural understanding between the healthcare provider and the patient. According to the NMBA nursing framework, preserving the patient’s personal and cultural identity is equally important while keeping the patient physically and psychologically balanced and healthy.

As per my personal experience with the help of person cantered care approach, the traditional nursing framework can be altered with appropriate attributes that can be very healthful to maintain the cross-cultural healthcare system and nursing models. In this case, the 14 years old girl needs more emotional and psychological health along with the understanding of her physical condition and needs (Kumar & Tandon, 2013). However, in this type of case the traditional nursing practice fails to recognise the entire needs of the patient as well as the optimum process of implementing the nursing framework. For this girl, she needs regular physical check-up and medication. At the same time, the absence of the intervention of elder siblings, parents and other entities from similar cultural environment leads the emotional condition to be more agitated.  Shoeing respect to her cultural and sociological perspective can avoid the consequences due to the absence of her parent, which can cause additional hindrance in curing process.

Conclusion

To understand the needs and requirements of the patient understanding of the psychological, social and other eternal factors is highly important with theoretical interventions. Considering the poverty level and inaccessibility to the healthcare service within aboriginal populace, the overall psychological upbringing of a child from both consciously and unconsciously, receives strong influence from the external factors like parents, society, peers and others. Lack of education, lack of conciseness about health factors and hygiene, have a massive impact on the expansion of a person inside his or her background process. Being a patient of child healthcare system, this girl needs more emotional and psychological support by involving her parents, social components and culturally attached beings along with the physical treatment (Ralston et al., 2014). The inadequate interaction with the child with her parents can has a high impact on psychological, social, emotional and perceptual well being. The lack of communication with the child can also lead to misconception of her parents about the existing healthcare service. The girl and her parent can also face some psychological tension because of lack of emotional attachment with caregivers and nurse. All of this situation can hinder the overall process of patient’s care and treatment needed for ARH. In this part of healthcare services, I need more in-depth knowledge about the cultural background of the client along with their believe system and interpretational perception.

Struggling to find out most competent procedure without identifying the social, cultural and emotional needs of the client cannot cure the patient in a stipulated timeline (Zühlke et al., 2014). Detail understanding about her friend zone, cultural ethics, environment, social aspect and other factors is highly require to incorporate the Culturally safe theoretical framework in the nursing practice. Person Centred Care or PCC is one of the alternate healthcare service approaches, which allows the caregiver to focus on the client’s emotional and socio-cultural needs. In the traditional guideline of NMBA nursing framework prioritising the patient’s personal, emotional, social cultural viewpoint. Therefore, as a learner of the healthcare system and appropriate guideline, I should also find out the appropriate alternative healthcare practice like person cantered care or family cantered care that can allow me to incorporate the Culturally Safe nursing model (Ross, Barr & Stevens, 2013).

In conclusive part, it can be said that culturally safe healthcare is referred to a concept framework for stipulation of suitable healthcare services for ethnically varied population. With this regards, a culturally safe healthcare environment is devoid of challenges, assault, as well as denial of the identity of the healthcare service users. One of the chief reasons behind the healthcare inequity in Aboriginal Australians is the cultural barriers that exist between the healthcare service providers and the healthcare service users. While adults are found to be suffering from healthcare issues like diabetes, obesity and a good range of lung and cardiovascular diseases because of their poverty level, lack of education, geographical condition, inaccessibility to the healthcare system. At the same time, aboriginal children are majorly found to be suffering from Asthma, Chronic health conditions, Rheumatic Heart disease, disabilities and oral health issues. From the above description, it can be said that, Culturally Safe or Transcultural nursing framework is the most effective culturally safe framework for treating indigenous healthcare service users. The inadequate interaction with the child with her parents can has a high impact on psychological, social, emotional and perceptual well being. At the same time, according to the NMBA nursing framework, preserving the patient’s personal, social and cultural identity is equally important while keeping the patient physically and psychologically balanced and healthy. At the same time, being a patient of child healthcare system, Miss X needs more emotional and psychological support along with the physical treatment.

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