Aims
The key aims of this resource are to:
- identify practices for nurses which challenge inequalities, stigma and discrimination. These practices are based on key principles for inclusive practice and are for all excluded groups.
- identify practices for nurses which promote and champion socially inclusive practice in a wide variety of settings and which improve access to health care.
- identify examples of best practice – nursing focused and illustrative of capabilities and skill sets – with particular relevance to student nurses and health care workers.
- identify key behaviours and strategies nurses can adopt to influence provider or policy-making colleagues, service managers and commissioners.
The key principles for inclusive practice are underpinned with due regard to the six strands of equality: age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, religion or belief.
The resource covers the social inclusion agenda in each of the four UK countries and currently has areas devoted to the following groups of people:
- asylum seekers and refugees
- Gypsies and Travellers
- homeless people
- people with a learning disability
- people with a mental health problem
- people with an offending history
- sex workers.
For an overview of how the site is organised go to How to use the site.