NUR1014 · Indigenous health and cultural safety in healthcare practice

Overview

This unit is informed by the Australian Government's, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Curriculum Framework and is provided via an innovative partnership between Nursing and Midwifery and Indigenous academics from the Gukwonderuk Indigenous Health Unit. Nurses and midwives make up a large part of the healthcare workforce and through their practice have a significant opportunity to make a difference in healthcare provision for Indigenous Australians. In this unit, you will have the opportunity to strengthen practical skills required to improve Indigenous health equity and cultural safety in healthcare. You will reflect on understandings of your own worldview and consider how this may impact working with diverse Indigenous Australian peoples and health equity. You undertake online learning journeys, which feature stories from Indigenous Elders and healthcare workers, videos, podcasts and interactive activities. In addition, critical reflections on real life case studies and activities to develop lifelong learning are provided.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Respect: Reflect on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ ways of knowing, being and doing, in the context of history, culture and diversity.
2. Reflection: Analyse how one’s own culture and dominant cultural paradigms influence perceptions of and interactions with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
3. Communication: Examine culturally appropriate, safe and sensitive communication that facilitates trust and builds respectful relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
4. Safety and Quality: Reflect and apply evidence and strength-based best practice approaches in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health care.
5. Advocacy: Reflect on and discuss advocacy for equitable outcomes and social justice in regard to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health.

Workload

12 hours per week of teacher facilitated and self-directed learning including tutorials and online activities. Please refer to Moodle for tutorial types and requirements.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.