Reflect on your overall experience (as a student nurse) and discuss how this might inform your progression into your own nursing practice. You are expected to write 1000 words in total, 500 words for section a) and 500 words for section b). Overall this reflection will be worth 10 marks.
a) Discuss the values, prejudices, cultural beliefs, and behaviours of nurses that can affect appropriate delivery of nursing and health care. (5 marks)
b) Reflect on your own practice and identify any potential prejudices, cultural beliefs and behaviours which could affect your nursing practice when caring for a patient/client from a culture other than their own. In your reflection, discuss what you could do to overcome the potential prejudices, cultural beliefs and behaviours you have identified. (5 marks)
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