White Privilege In Nursing Care

In the early 18th century Australia was colonised by the European settlers. At that time land was claimed ‘terra nullius’, an empty land without an owner, however, the fact was Indigenous people were living here for thousands of years (Prentis, 2011). According to Forsyth (2007) European settlement came with laws and policies that aimed at isolating and regulating the Aboriginal people in Australia (). Racism means separating the people based on their biological appearance mostly based on skin colour which leads the groups to think they are superior to other races (Tatum, 2001, p.102). Tatum (2001, p.103) states racism become ingrained at all levels individual, institutional and cultural. According to Taylor and Guerin (2014) white privilege …show more content…
518). This domination could impact my services as a nurse, firstly racism and white privilege in nursing care will impact on patient’s intrinsic dignity. Secondly white privilege confirms that different group are socially, culturally, and historically built in a hierarchically order, as result it will cause inequitable delivery of health care among the patients. As future nurse, I’m certainly concerned about that. we really have to think about how racism is displayed in the attitudes of nurses and other health care providers toward patients and their fellow professionals of different ethnic groups. Racism has an adverse impact on the health care atmosphere and on those receiving health care services. In the health care field, discrepancy in accessing to resources restricts basic and preventive health care to members of some races. Unequal delivery of health care resources could result in morbidity and mortality rates increasing among racial and ethnic categories and economic classes (Mellor, 2003 …show more content…
Social constructionism visualizes all other aspects of people are created, continued and destroyed in our interactions with others through time, except few genetic developments in humankind. The terms constructivism and social constructionism tend to be used interchangeably and subsumed under the generic term ‘constructivism’ particularly by Charmaz (2000, p.529). Constructivism crates that each individual emotionally hypotheses the world of experience through cognitive processes while social constructionism has a social rather than an individual focus (Young & Colin, 2004). It is less involved if at all in the cognitive processes that accompany knowledge. Social constructionism is essentially an anti-realist, relativist stance (Hammersley, 1992), for example assuming that all Africans are poor or that all indigenous people are alcoholics. The impact of social constructionism is a current issue within our society in present day. (Charmaz, 2000, p.529). Furthermore, social construction not only applied for experienced matters but what individual’s belief about them, where it is originating from white privilege and racism of the social