This experiential text will offer authentic and experiential learning, equipping you with models of how to be culturally safe. You will learn about the challenges faced by First Nations people in the health care system and how to offer culturally safe nursing care and health promotion The text begins with a discussion of why cultural safety is needed, set against the background of Australia’s colonial history and the social and cultural impacts on First Nations people, especially their health, before moving into critical reflective practice activities to develop a cultural safety program for self. You will be encouraged to explore issues that create a deficit narrative and result in marginalisation and poor outcomes.
1. Why do we need cultural safety?
2. Cultural competency and cultural safety
3. Getting to know myself: unpacking personal bias
4. Listening to community, to elders, and to leaders
Part 2 Social and Historical Determinants of Indigenous Health in Australia
5. History: The determinants of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
6. Indigenous ways of knowing about health and well-being
7. The deficit dialogue: access, language and action
Part 3 Implementation
8. The role of health providers
9. Working together: Indigenous and non-Indigenous health professionals
10. Providing health care in urban, rural and remote settings
11. Research in context: challenging deficit narratives
12. Revisiting oneself: a lifelong journey in cultural safety
- Juanita Sherwood
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Janine Mohamed
Janine Mohamed, (RN) is currently CEO at the Lowitja Institute, after several year as CEO of Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM). Over the past 20 years, Janine has worked in nursing, management, project management, and workforce and health policy in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector. Many of these years have been spent in the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health sector at state, national and international levels, and most recently as the CEO at the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM). Janine is now based in Melbourne and has been awarded an Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity Fellowship in 2019.
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Vicki Saunders
Dr Saunders is Research Fellow at First Peoples Health Unit, Griffith University; she is a Gunggari woman from South West Queensland currently living in Southern Central Queensland. She has been an associate member of the Collaborative Research into Empowerment and Wellbeing (CREW) group in Far North Queensland, a PhD candidate and Team Investigator within the JCU led Building Indigenous Research Capacity (BIRC) project, School of Public Health Tropical Medicine & Rehabilitation Sciences and is currently working with the First Peoples Health Unit, Griffith University. Trained in psychology and public health Vicki has been involved over the last 15 years in a diverse range of research projects with Indigenous groups and community-based organisations across North Queensland. Her main research interests are in the areas of child protection and family service delivery reform, Indigenist Research Methodologies and mental health research with a particular focus on empowerment, wellbeing and recovery.
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