EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN HEALTHCARE
Institutional Affiliation
Student Name
Supervisor Name
, Confidentiality Statement
The NMC Code (2018), which requires nurses to uphold the right of people to privacy
and confidentiality (NMC, 2018), removes any personal identifiers to protect the identity of
the concerned individuals. The patient in this reflection was described using a pseudonym,
and no personal, clinical, or institutional information has been disclosed. This will ensure that
professional, ethical, and legal confidentiality standards are fully complied with.
, Introduction
Equity and inclusiveness have emerged as some of the leading values in the modern
healthcare sector, defining how nurses may guarantee the safe, ethical, and person-centred
practice in the international context (Tomaselli et al., 2020). Equity requires people to be
given quality healthcare based on their needs, and barriers that are associated with
socioeconomic status, gender, ethnicity, disability, or structural disadvantage should be
addressed and eliminated (Breslin et al., 2016). The inclusion, in its turn, focuses on the fact
that patients and other healthcare personnel members should feel respected and valued and
should not be discriminated against to engage in the care processes (Aysola et al., 2018).
They are the overriding concepts in international nursing practice and are consistent with the
global priorities such as Universal Health Coverage and WHO efforts to achieve it through
the reduction of preventable morbidity and mortality (WHO, 2021).
Equity and inclusion are the professional issues I have selected in this reflective
assignment. I have chosen to go with the career Reflective Cycle (1988) by Gibbs to structure
the reflection. The model introduced by Gibbs is systematic and follows a straightforward
approach: description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion, and action plan (Ocampo et
al., 2025). It is powerful because it promotes deep emotional and critical thinking, which are
important for solving ethical and complex clinical issues. This choice is supported by Benner
et al. (2008) and Sholeha et al. (2020), who claim that reflective and experiential learning are
important parts of clinical reasoning and the process of moving from novice to expert nursing
practice.
The reflective case scenario on which this essay is based is on an anonymised global
case of a young woman who suddenly experienced acute degradation after having a ruptured
ectopic pregnancy, where she developed complications of sepsis. The case represents a
widely recognized universal problem: differences in the availability of diagnostic care,
Institutional Affiliation
Student Name
Supervisor Name
, Confidentiality Statement
The NMC Code (2018), which requires nurses to uphold the right of people to privacy
and confidentiality (NMC, 2018), removes any personal identifiers to protect the identity of
the concerned individuals. The patient in this reflection was described using a pseudonym,
and no personal, clinical, or institutional information has been disclosed. This will ensure that
professional, ethical, and legal confidentiality standards are fully complied with.
, Introduction
Equity and inclusiveness have emerged as some of the leading values in the modern
healthcare sector, defining how nurses may guarantee the safe, ethical, and person-centred
practice in the international context (Tomaselli et al., 2020). Equity requires people to be
given quality healthcare based on their needs, and barriers that are associated with
socioeconomic status, gender, ethnicity, disability, or structural disadvantage should be
addressed and eliminated (Breslin et al., 2016). The inclusion, in its turn, focuses on the fact
that patients and other healthcare personnel members should feel respected and valued and
should not be discriminated against to engage in the care processes (Aysola et al., 2018).
They are the overriding concepts in international nursing practice and are consistent with the
global priorities such as Universal Health Coverage and WHO efforts to achieve it through
the reduction of preventable morbidity and mortality (WHO, 2021).
Equity and inclusion are the professional issues I have selected in this reflective
assignment. I have chosen to go with the career Reflective Cycle (1988) by Gibbs to structure
the reflection. The model introduced by Gibbs is systematic and follows a straightforward
approach: description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion, and action plan (Ocampo et
al., 2025). It is powerful because it promotes deep emotional and critical thinking, which are
important for solving ethical and complex clinical issues. This choice is supported by Benner
et al. (2008) and Sholeha et al. (2020), who claim that reflective and experiential learning are
important parts of clinical reasoning and the process of moving from novice to expert nursing
practice.
The reflective case scenario on which this essay is based is on an anonymised global
case of a young woman who suddenly experienced acute degradation after having a ruptured
ectopic pregnancy, where she developed complications of sepsis. The case represents a
widely recognized universal problem: differences in the availability of diagnostic care,
