Models of Nursing Care

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Introduction

The notion of cultural safety is an important concept in providing health care. It indicates as to how the physician deals with the patients from different ethnicities and races. This involves the medical practitioner's understanding of their own culture and his cultural values and the knowledge as to how these values will impact the provision of health care to patients, regardless of their ethnicity or race. This cultural safety originates from the strong understanding of cultural sensitivity and cultural awareness. This also ensures that the medical practitioner is able to deal with people from wide and diverse cultures, regardless of their origin. The cultural respect framework includes knowledge and awareness, skilled practice and behaviour, customer and community relationships that are strong, and equity of outcomes. However, it becomes clear that healthcare providers are frequently confronted with multiple cultures of people and language problems. Not all patients will be English-speaking, therefore, resulting in language problems (ACT Government, 2007).

It is absolutely imperative for the nurses to recognise the social constructs available in theoretical approaches to determining cultural safety. Therefore, the nurses need to acknowledge that various people come from different backgrounds and are specifically shaped by their social world. This also entails the shaping of their world through their actions. With the help of a sociological approach to nursing, it has been found that the nurses need to look anew at the illness issues and the type of healthcare provided in Australia. It has been found that the current approach is a single approach to understanding the cultural diversity and it revolves around only the biomedicine. However, there are also other healthcare ideas, also given by the media, which are less explored and practised by the nurses. It has been further found that a person's sociological position determines their health and illnesses. These social structures are formed due to differences in gender, social class, and ethnic or indigenous origins. A sociological analysis, therefore, looks into the social structures related to provision of health and is necessary to learn cultural safety (Willis and Elmer, 2007).

Models of nursing care

Cultural safety is usually considered akin to nursing. However, it refers to the way nurses deal with their ability to structure each interaction with patients and to know the respective clinical assessment and judgement. Cultural safety, therefore, enables the nurses to overcome the situations of power provided to them as a result of communications, relationships, and healthcare outcomes that provide the nurses with an opportunity to provide customised healthcare. However, most people easily portray cultural safety as good listening and respecting of another person (Richardson, 2010).

However, another similar field is that of the scientific and practice field of trans-cultural nursing. It emphasises the use of knowledge and experience by the nurses in dealing with patients from diverse cultures. Consequently, the nurses are able to recognise the differences and similarities in various cultures. The nurses are then able to acknowledge the cultural values and differences of people from different cultures thereby providing people with ...