Assessment aims

The aim of your assignment is to write an essay on culturally responsive care in the Australian health care context using academically credible literature to support your discussion. The purpose of your assignment is to explore the barriers to accessing health care for two culturally diverse but distinct groups in Australia, then relate the Cultural Safety Model Framework to improving access to health care for all people from culturally diverse population groups.

In order to meet this aim, you are to engage in the weekly unit material and tutorials from Modules 1-6, where a number of resources are offered that will support your response to this assessment task. The general purpose of this assignment is to integrate research and theory into your response and is designed to help develop your critical thinking skills.

Task description

In forming your response, you are to address the following three criteria:

1. Identify one social, political or economic historical event for First Nation Australians and discuss the influence that this has had on the health outcomes for First Nation’s people who live in today's society.

2. Identify a topic reported in the Australian media that negatively portrays a minority migrant group and discuss the effect this has on the health and wellbeing for that particular population group in Australia. The media report must have occurred within the last 12 months.

3. Using Ramsden’s Cultural Safety Model (1991) framework, discuss the role and responsibilities of the nurse in the delivery of patient care for people from an ethnic minority group in Australia.

Instructions to Students

You are to use headings and therefore a contents page for this assignment. Headings serve as a guide in first-year academic writing. This will also give you practice in how to format a contents page. The ALC will guide you in this.

When addressing the assignment topic, you will need to use contemporary literature (<5 years) to support your discussion. When sourcing information, consider the five elements of a quality reference: currency, authority, relevance, objectivity, and coverage. References sourced from the world-wide-web must be from reputable websites such as from government, university, or peak national bodies, for example, the Australian College of Nursing. A minimum of seven up-to-date references, including two journal articles as well as relevant books and websites are to be used.

A 2000-word limit has been set for this assignment. A 10% leeway on either side of the word limit is accepted. Word count is measured from the first word of the introduction to the last word of the conclusion and includes in-text referencing. Not included in the word count are the title page, contents page and reference list.

To help scaffold your assessment you should allow approximately 10% (200 words) each for the introduction and conclusion and approximately 530-550 words for each of the three criteria listed in the Task Description above.

· Write in the third person language

· Use double-line spacing and Arial 11-point font throughout

· Include a title page with student name, student number, unit code, unit name, term date and year, names of unit coordinators, name of assignment, due date for submission, and actual word count.

· Include a reference list correctly formatted to APA referencing style

· Include a header with the page numbers and a footer with your student name and student number in the same font style as the body of your assignment

· Submit your Assessment Task 1 by the due date

· Submit via Moodle

· Upload with the file named in the following format: Surname_ First name_ Student number_ A1

The assessment criteria table and associated performance standards for Assessment Item 1 is available on the course Moodle site in the Assessment block. These assessment criteria will be used to evaluate your assignment. It is important you refer to this table when preparing your assignment.

Your assignment will be evaluated on the following criteria:

• Structure and design (20%)
• Approach and argument (60%)
• Referencing (20%)

Assessment aim

The aim of this assignment is to write a commentary paper on equitable health care for marginalised and stigmatised groups. The paper should be suitable for publication in the Australian College of Nursing (ACN)’s quarterly magazine called the ‘Hive’. In order to meet this aim, you are to engage in the weekly unit material and tutorials from Modules 7-11, where a number of resources are offered that will support your response to this assessment task. The general purpose of this assignment is to integrate research and theory into your response and is designed to help develop your critical thinking skills.

Task description

The following scenario is designed to put this hypothetical exercise into context. Queensland experiences environmental disasters (e.g., floods and cyclones) resulting in many presentations to healthcare services for a variety of reasons. As a nurse in a local Queensland hospital following a cyclone in your area, you became concerned about healthcare professional attitudes towards some of the patients who appeared to be treated less favourably than others because of their background. You want to raise these concerns with a higher authority and decide to write to the editor of Hive magazine to appeal to the wider nursing community.

You are to select two of the marginalised and stigmatised groups in society from the list below. As part of your commentary paper you must address the following three criteria using academically credible literature to support your discussion. Your response must include at least one government policy to support your discussion. For your two chosen groups:

1. Discuss inequitable health care as a human rights issue.

2. Discuss how stigmatisation by healthcare professionals can impact on poorer health outcomes, including effects on health literacy.

3. Discuss inclusive practices as a nursing responsibility in promoting equitable healthcare.

Choose two marginalised groups from the following list:

· People with intellectual disability

· People who are homeless

· People who use illicit drugs

· People identifying as LGBTIQQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer & Questioning)

Instructions to Students

You are to use headings and therefore a contents page for this assignment. Headings serve as a guide in first-year academic writing. This will also give you practice in how to format a contents page. The ALC will guide you in this.

When addressing the assignment topic, you will need to use contemporary literature (<5 years) to support your discussion. When sourcing information, consider the five elements of a quality reference: currency, authority, relevance, objectivity, and coverage. References sourced from the world-wide-web must be from reputable websites such as from government, university, or peak national bodies, for example, the Australian College of Nursing. A minimum of seven up-to-date references, including two journal articles as well as relevant books and websites are to be used.

A 2000-word limit has been set for this assignment. A 10% leeway on either side of the word limit is accepted. Word count will be measured from the first word of the introduction to the last word of the conclusion and includes in-text referencing. Not included in the word count are the title page, contents page and reference list.

To help scaffold your assessment you should allow approximately 10% (200 words) each for the introduction and conclusion and approximately 530-550 words for each of the three criteria listed in the Task Description above.

· Write in third person language

· Use double-line spacing and Arial 11-point font throughout

· Include a title page with student name, student number, unit code, unit name, term date and year, names of unit coordinators, name of assignment, due date for submission, and actual word count

· Include a contents page with headings that match the headings in your essay

· Include a reference list correctly formatted to APA referencing style

· Include a header with the page numbers and a footer with your student name and student number in the same font style as the body of your assignment

· Submit your Assessment Task 2 by the due date

· Submit via Moodle

· Upload the file named in the following format: Surname_ First name_ Student number_ A2

The assessment criteria table and associated performance standards for Assessment Item 2 is available on the course Moodle site in the Assessment block. These assessment criteria will be used to evaluate your assignment. It is important you refer to this table when preparing your assignment.

Your assignment will be evaluated on the following criteria:

· Structure (20%)

· Approach and argument (60%)

· Referencing (20%)