Activity: connection to country
Read the ABC online article: utopian ideal for Indigenous health?
What ‘connection to country’ strategies could you implement in?
a. An inner-city drug and alcohol recovery centre-
Drug and Alcohol recovery centre is an essential intervention in an inner city as, data shows the percentage of indigenous people using abused drugs and alcohol is high when comparing with other Australians. But the Geographical area, where this inner-city drug and alcohol recovery centre is situated is highly concerned in determining the strategies. According to Utopian ideal for Indigenous health, it is obvious that, the well-being of indigenous people depend on not only by providing all the necessary health care facilities but also by allowing those people to be connected with their beliefs, habits, religion and the land. Further, allowing indigenous people to make their own decisions also important. Therefore at above recovery centre the native people should be facilitated to take their own decisions mainly by providing them health facts such as side effects and harm of using alcohol and abused drugs and making them aware on what are the methods available to recover from those harmful habits. Because, the social determinants of health of indigenous people seems to be different form non-indigenous people in Australia. b. A general ward in a rural hospital- The social and cultural group of patients attending to a general ward in a rural hospital will be having significant differences. Research findings shows allowing indigenous people to live in their own cultural and religious background will help them to recover soon. Therefore the duty and responsibility of enrolled nurse is to find out each patient’s cultural and religious values and facilitate them to take medication and health care within that framework. The strategies should well fit to that cultural diversity. c. A family support service in an Indigenous community- The objective of a family support service is to enhance the well-being of each and every family within the framework of that family’s values and heritance rather than focusing them to follow all the instructions and advices given by non-indigenous health care workers. …show more content…
Therefore, the best strategy is to understand the values and cultural practices of each family and facilitate those families to attain better health outcome within their own cultural context. The strategies focusing on involvement of family on decision making process is very effective in such circumstances. Following a careful root cause analysis their problems can be identified and strategies can be planned out. Activity: Earning trust. What could you do and say to overcome possible mistrust in assisting the following clients? a. An older traditional man standing reluctantly outside your health service- Most of the traditional indigenous people have mistrust towards the non-indigenous healthcare system due to their history such as memories of racism, stolen generation. Especially they indicate hospitals/health services as a place to which let patients die. So as a nurse I would like to reassure them, understand their mind set and explain them the services we provide is for the betterment of patient rather than killing. I will try to make them feel more comfortable on receiving health service and act culturally appropriate. Due to above reasons they might have fear and mistrust on white doctors. So I would like to introduce aboriginal staff and doctors to make him feel comfortable. b. A young single pregnant girl from a remote community who has been flown in …show more content…
Any culture is not superior or inferior to others.
If I got another opportunity, I will definitely avoid cultural bias, will treat her as similar as others, will help her to go up the ladder and achieve her goals.
c. How will you lessen the effect of cultural bias in your service delivery?
Cultural bias is taking one’s own culture as superior and treating other’s cultures inferior. That imagination leads to lot of discriminations especially in dealing with indigenous clients. Therefore, I will try to learn to minimize cultural bias when dealing with multicultural clients as I get more experience and knowledge on that subject. I will try to handle them in their own way which lead them feel better. As an enrolled nurse I will learn more on my clients back grounds and cultural facts to avoid cultural bias and will provide a quality care for
Read the ABC online article: utopian ideal for Indigenous health?
What ‘connection to country’ strategies could you implement in?
a. An inner-city drug and alcohol recovery centre-
Drug and Alcohol recovery centre is an essential intervention in an inner city as, data shows the percentage of indigenous people using abused drugs and alcohol is high when comparing with other Australians. But the Geographical area, where this inner-city drug and alcohol recovery centre is situated is highly concerned in determining the strategies. According to Utopian ideal for Indigenous health, it is obvious that, the well-being of indigenous people depend on not only by providing all the necessary health care facilities but also by allowing those people to be connected with their beliefs, habits, religion and the land. Further, allowing indigenous people to make their own decisions also important. Therefore at above recovery centre the native people should be facilitated to take their own decisions mainly by providing them health facts such as side effects and harm of using alcohol and abused drugs and making them aware on what are the methods available to recover from those harmful habits. Because, the social determinants of health of indigenous people seems to be different form non-indigenous people in Australia. b. A general ward in a rural hospital- The social and cultural group of patients attending to a general ward in a rural hospital will be having significant differences. Research findings shows allowing indigenous people to live in their own cultural and religious background will help them to recover soon. Therefore the duty and responsibility of enrolled nurse is to find out each patient’s cultural and religious values and facilitate them to take medication and health care within that framework. The strategies should well fit to that cultural diversity. c. A family support service in an Indigenous community- The objective of a family support service is to enhance the well-being of each and every family within the framework of that family’s values and heritance rather than focusing them to follow all the instructions and advices given by non-indigenous health care workers. …show more content…
Therefore, the best strategy is to understand the values and cultural practices of each family and facilitate those families to attain better health outcome within their own cultural context. The strategies focusing on involvement of family on decision making process is very effective in such circumstances. Following a careful root cause analysis their problems can be identified and strategies can be planned out. Activity: Earning trust. What could you do and say to overcome possible mistrust in assisting the following clients? a. An older traditional man standing reluctantly outside your health service- Most of the traditional indigenous people have mistrust towards the non-indigenous healthcare system due to their history such as memories of racism, stolen generation. Especially they indicate hospitals/health services as a place to which let patients die. So as a nurse I would like to reassure them, understand their mind set and explain them the services we provide is for the betterment of patient rather than killing. I will try to make them feel more comfortable on receiving health service and act culturally appropriate. Due to above reasons they might have fear and mistrust on white doctors. So I would like to introduce aboriginal staff and doctors to make him feel comfortable. b. A young single pregnant girl from a remote community who has been flown in …show more content…
Any culture is not superior or inferior to others.
If I got another opportunity, I will definitely avoid cultural bias, will treat her as similar as others, will help her to go up the ladder and achieve her goals.
c. How will you lessen the effect of cultural bias in your service delivery?
Cultural bias is taking one’s own culture as superior and treating other’s cultures inferior. That imagination leads to lot of discriminations especially in dealing with indigenous clients. Therefore, I will try to learn to minimize cultural bias when dealing with multicultural clients as I get more experience and knowledge on that subject. I will try to handle them in their own way which lead them feel better. As an enrolled nurse I will learn more on my clients back grounds and cultural facts to avoid cultural bias and will provide a quality care for