Outline how you could be a nurse or health service provider advocate for Islamic ethnic group and contribute towards improved health outcomes for individuals of Islamic ethnicity at a population level.

Outline how you could be a nurse or health service provider advocate for Islamic ethnic group and contribute towards improved health outcomes for individuals of Islamic ethnicity at a population level.

In this task you will write a reflection about your anticipated nursing or health care practice. (Group of interest = Individuals of Islamic ethnicity in Australian population)

Word Count = 1200 words

Your reflection is a response to the question:

How can I provide culturally safe health care to people who belong to Islamic ethnicity in Australia

There are four required components to your reflection:

Identify some of the barriers to health care access and good care experienced by individuals of Islamic ethnicity.
Reflect on your attitudes, values and beliefs Islamic ethnicity, and assess the impact (both positive and negative) of your attitudes on your anticipated health care practice with them.
Describe some culturally safe health care practices you might undertake with individual patients of Islamic ethnicity.
Outline how you could be a nurse or health service provider advocate for Islamic ethnic group and contribute towards improved health outcomes for individuals of Islamic ethnicity at a population level.

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Introduction

Australia is sometimes described as the most multicultural society on earth. More than 6 million people have migrated to Australia since 1949.  There were many cultural and language groups in Australia prior to European settlement. While many of these languages have been lost, many survive. Some have combined with European languages to form Creole languages. Across the north of Australia, these are now the most widely spoken indigenous languages. More than 6 million people have migrated to Australia since 1949. [1] Australians now speak more than 400 languages (including Indigenous languages) and identify with more than 270 ancestries. More than 3 million Australians (15.6% of the population) speak a language other than English at home.  Almost 20% of people who do not speak English at home are not…