SNUG207: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health: Biomedical Mental Illness

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.

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.  

 

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.