Questions:
Critically reflect on how your culture, life experiences, worldview and your dominant cultural beliefs, have influenced your perceptions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Discuss how these perceptions may influence your nursing practice and care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Identify how your insights (formed in the previous stages) may inform culturally safe practice with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the future.
Identify how your insights (formed in the previous stages) may inform culturally safe practice with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the future.
Choose three (3) examples of Aboriginal and Torres Strait cultural health care needs. These examples will likely differ from Australian health care models, systems, guidelines or policies.
Examples can include men’s and women’s business, traditional healing and medicine, birthing on Country, dying on Country, cultural beliefs about aging, social and emotional wellbeing not a biomedical mental illness, health beliefs that include the whole of community.
Examples can include men’s and women’s business, traditional healing and medicine, birthing on Country, dying on Country, cultural beliefs about aging, social and emotional wellbeing not a biomedical mental illness, health beliefs that include the whole of community.
Critically review each example, considering:
• How your examples differ for the Australian healthcare model/system/guideline/policy
• Evaluate what could be done by registered nurses to provide culturally safe health care.
• How your examples differ for the Australian healthcare model/system/guideline/policy
• Evaluate what could be done by registered nurses to provide culturally safe health care.
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