Healthcare Challenges Faced By Adult Refugees In Australia

Refugee Situation in Australia

Discuss about the Stigma of Being Refugee Vocational Stress.

According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, places the Adult refugees who have settled in Australia make the country rank 3^rd among nations that take in the highest number of asylum seekers in the world. The Agency notes the country’s determination to help in solving the issue of displacement brought about by the civil and political unrest in the Middle East. The Australian government is eager to take in many refugees from war-torn nations in trying to assist the US in solving the issue of displacement. Adult refugees living in Australia are vulnerable to tendencies of self-harm and suicidal behaviors due to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Depression. According to a report by the Australian National Mental Health Commission, however, the asylum seekers seldom get the attention they need due to their refugee status. The commission found that seekers of asylum report rates of up to four times of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression and anxiety compared to ordinary Australians. The most affected section of the population was the Adult Tamil asylum seekers. Middle to old men was of particular affinity to the disease.

The Australian government has created numerous legislations to try to contain the refugee situation. Some of these legislations have directly affected the adult Tamil population while others have changed them indirectly. The government established the Indefinite Mandatory Detention law that keeps refugees arriving without visas on indefinite detention in government facilities. The length of stay for people in detention was more than 450 days. Prison-like conditions of detention expose Tamil adult refugees at the risk of depression.  The government adopted the use of community placements to ease the strain on asylum seekers. Asylum seekers have a hard time finding employment, and this makes it hard for them to make ends meet.

According to Wichmann et al. (2017), Australia has granted the highest number of offshore humanitarian visas to the Iraqi. Continued interactions between the Iraqi and the Australian medics create a greater understanding of their mental health. Research into the mental health of Iraqi refugees reveals high levels of emotional distress compared to the rest of the population. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Depression are the most common mental illness affecting refugees. According to Tay et al. (2015), Nurses spend most of the time around the patient extending their care for the efficient healing process. Changes in nursing education are designed to make nurses at all levels leaders in the field of nursing care. Nurses are supposed to work with multiple levels of staff and understand a vast area of health complications to assist patients in need of their services.

Mental Health of Iraqi Refugees in Australia

The connection between Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the determination process for refugees involves static and dynamic issues. Refugees face various environmental factors in their new countries of origin, which not only makes it hard for them to acquire the treatment they need but also makes it hard for them to cope. Since the beginning of the Humanitarian Migration Program of Australia in 2016, the country receives one of the highest numbers of refugees in the world. Many of the seekers of asylum originate from the Middle East. Statistics from the Australian Department of Border Protection show that more than 24,000 new immigrants arrive in the country every year. Most of these refugees come from Syria and Iraq. Seekers of Asylum face traumatic events before their migration into Australia may make adverse decisions out of ignorance. The 2003 conflict in Iraq led to tremendous events of hostilities, which carry on to this day. Refugees from Iraq to Australia now form the most significant number of immigrant population.

According to Slewa & Radulovik, (2014), History of the state and physical examination of the patient are non-specific most of the time, and this limits their values in the clinical process of investigation for Tamil adult refugees in Australia. Majority of Tamil adult refugees in Australia with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder lack the symptoms that to explain their condition. Few clinical tests can be used to increase the probability of testing for the state. Swellings on the legs and the things can be determined by measuring the circumference of the thighs and the legs (Simpson, 2014). Collateral superficial dilated veins and Oedema might be found on the affected side of the leg or the thigh. The nurse should look out for tenderness on the path of the deep veins. The inner anterior thigh experiences compression along the groin all the way to the adductor canal.  

The most common test for the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder condition borders around the administration of ultrasound. The doctor may recommend the dimer test for establishing the venography (Mahimboa et al. 2017). A dime test measures the amount of substance in the blood released when the blood dissolves. A high level of the element means a high level of a blood clot. The contrary indicates a shallow level of the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The type of treatment administered to the patient depends on some factors among them the length of time the patient has experienced the pain in the leg and amount of pain present (Liew et al. 2015). The model uses the patient’s descriptions to analyze feelings, make evaluations and conclusions, and come up with practical solutions to the issue. The nurse begins by asking the patient to describe the situation in detail. It is the primary stage of the model in which the nurse only wants to know the events are they occur and in the right chronology (Knapperta et al. 2017). Some of the questions asked at this stage include when and where the patient was at the time of the occurrence, the exact thing that led to the appearance and actions taken by other people on the scene of the event.

Diagnosis and Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Tamil Adult Refugees in Australia

Administration of anticoagulation therapy remains the most suitable way of treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. According to Scher & Knudsen (2014), The treatment must, however, be administered in good time to have the right effect on Tamil adult refugees in Australia. The therapy is noninvasive and therefore addresses most of the Tamil adult refugees in Australia most of the time it is administered. It has no immediate demonstrable sequoia and has a low risk of complications. Occasionally surgical intervention could be required to help Tamil adult refugees in Australia recover fully when the anticoagulants prove futile. The process of incorporating surgery into treatment is often reserved as the last option (Newman, 2014). The best long-term conditions can be achieved among Tamil adult refugees in Australia less than 40 years with no history of blood clot in the veins.

Pertinent historical questions are essential for forming a firm foundation for understanding the issue. According to Kartal & Kiropoulos, (2016), the nurse encourages the patient to speak about what he felt or thought at the time of the event. The nurse must avoid commenting on the emotions of the patient. Some patients find it hard to speak about what they feel. The nurse must explore the use of empathic listening to anticipate and understand what the patient intends to say. The nurse must try to relate to the patient from their point of view of the issue. The nurse can alternatively employ the technique of seeing the person’s situation from other people’s point of view (Hassan et al. 2017). The nurse needs to encourage the patient to look at the question objectively. Once the nurse has uncovered all the mysteries of their patient’s situations, they can make appropriate conclusions about their conditions.

It might sometimes be hard for the doctor to determine the type of sickness a patient suffers from by considering pain in the leg. Multiple conditions can cause pain in the leg including skin infections and muscle sprains (Boorsma et al. 2017). Calculation of a Well’s Score might assist in determining whether one has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder condition. Tamil adult refugees in Australia who suspect having Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder are supposed to be examined and treated promptly as the condition might Dimer Blood test can be helpful for detecting the state. The test can be used to identify fragments of blood clots in the veins. Blood tests are not entirely conclusive as they may fail to see intricate details of the inner parts of the threads.

Complementary mechanisms are necessary to ascertain the correct ailment. When blood clots form in the legs, they remain stuck on the walls of the veins (Baranika et al. 2017). The symptoms of this condition settle gradually with the lump taking either of two types. The main aim of treatment for the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder disease is to prevent the clot from getting larger and spreading up the vein (Bandy, 2013). Nurses work to avert the development of Post-thrombotic syndrome and reduce the patient’s risk of developing the condition in the future. Collaboration between the nurse and the patient through effective communication is essential in preventing such deaths from occurring. The body is strictly concerned with issues that touch on health care ethics (Ainsworth, 2014). The College of Healthcare Executives is the other body discussed in this essay. The body is involved with the creation of and the maintenance of a code of ethics that all the members abide by at all times. The following essay draws a descriptive narrative about the two bodies and analyses them accordingly.

The Faith Regional Health Services is an Islamic oriented organization, and hence all her values and ethics are streamlined towards that particular direction. On the other hand, the College of Health Executives is based on contemporary costs and is not affiliated with any religious group (Bandy, 2013). The organization hence forms its values by looking at the modern ideas about ethics. The Faith Regional Health Services Ethics Committee is grounded by the idea that all life is a gift from God and hence ought to be treated as a sacred part of life.  An underlying fundamental principle is that all that ought to be done needs to be done if that is what it means to save a life (Campion, 2017). The organization being affiliated with the Islamic denomination believes that men must protect life and therefore the idea of abortion is out of the question no matter the situation of the mother or the child.

Increase in research in the area of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among refugees is essential in dealing with the issue. The Faith Regional Health Services supports the preservation of all human life from the time of conception to the time death (Bandy, 2013). The organization promotes the support for the life of the entire human person in the state of the body, the mind, and the soul. The organization is aimed at offering services that are accurate, timely, and effective to Tamil adult refugees in Australia. The core of the business of the organization is intent on maintaining effective communication among members of staff and patients within the facility as well. All of the values and the ethics of the organization are coined around the Islamic values enshrined within the Koran. The Faith Regional Health Services Ethics Committee is concerned with the judicious and the careful use of resources at all times. The Committee is also put in place to help embrace effective mechanisms for problem-solving to enable the smooth flow of healthcare services within the organization.

The code of ethics is also developed to act as a guide for the organization in the process of making rules and regulations for the organization. The organization is concerned more about reaching out to efficient services to Tamil adult refugees in Australia within the healthcare facility as opposed to reaching out to the individual members of the organization. The code is built into standards of measurement for the organization (Ainsworth, 2014). The employees’ performance is measured by how well they can uphold the values of the organization. Student and colleagues are also taught by the use of the benefits of the code of ethics. There comes a time to the running of the organization in which the organization has issues of uncertainty about ethics. These codes are used as a measure of certainty, and it is via these codes of ethics that the value of the organization can be evaluated efficiently (Ainsworth, 2014). Many leaders in the healthcare industry function as educators. At times, the call to educate calls openly in the classroom while other times it is designed to fit into the working environment outside the classroom.

The Code of ethics in this organization is designed to appeal to the entire healthcare practitioners at all levels of healthcare practice. The Faith Regional Health Services Ethics Committee is concerned with the facilitation of education, development of policy, consultation, change of policy, review of cases, creating awareness on issues that deal with ethics, and the identification of problems that deal with systems that are deemed dysfunctional (Newman, 2014). Regular attendance at committee meetings that deal with issues of ethics is an essential part of the organization. While both organizations are intent on keeping, almost similar values, there are specific areas where their values seem to take different turns (Simpson, 2014). The fact of being an Islamic organization is a significant factor that determines the kind of ethics the organization adopts.

The Faith Regional Health Services Ethics Committee is charged with many responsibilities that are similar to those of the College of Health Care Executives. The two organizations are both designed with the sole aim of pursuing ethics to the best of the healthcare industry standards (Newman, 2014). They are both designed to ensure that both bodies uphold the best kind of ethics the world and in the process remain at the top of healthcare practice. The committees ensure that they take charge of the intricate details of all matters about health care ethics. The committees look into what it means to uphold the standards of the industry in the healthcare market. With such committees in place, it is possible to track the level of ethics within health care facilities and to maintain order and uphold high industry standards (Bandy, 2013). The College of Healthcare Executives and The Faith Regional Health Services stand in contrast to one another in as much as they stand in stark similarity to one another.

Conclusion

Tamil adult refugees in Australia are in need of medical care to track, treat, and rehabilitate Post Traumatic Stress Disorders and Depression. Many traumatic occurrences lead to the formation of PTSD. The experience of losing a sense of heritage due to migration or forced abandonment of one’s homeland might lead to the distressful creation of PTSD. Not only is an individual’s health affected but also their moral dimensions. The situation of being an immigrant in a foreign land like Australia denies Tamil adult refugees the medical attention they need, and hence many of the cases of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among the refugees go undetected and therefore untreated. Many of the Tamil adult refugees in Australia with PTSD have to make do with the condition without medical attention. Research about the clinical intervention of the state is deficient. The treatment of refugees with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder requires a high level of expertise, which lacks in the training of many medical practitioners. Some medical practitioners fear to approach the subjects using the religious dimension saying it lies beyond their scope of practice. Some medical practitioners hold the belief that religion must be left out of science when dealing with the matter because the two disciplines lie in different operational scope. The issues remain perilous and highly controversial especially because Islam is involved.

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and this makes it hard for them to make ends meet.