Yatdjuligin

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care

Odette Best,Bronwyn Fredericks

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781108899758
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Medicina
• Subtopic: Enfermería

Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care introduces students to the fundamentals of health care of Indigenous Australians, encompassing the perspectives of both the client and the health practitioner. Written for all nurses and midwives, this book addresses the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and mainstream health services and introduces readers to practice and research in a variety of healthcare contexts. This new edition has been fully updated to reflect current research and documentation, with an emphasis on cultural safety. Three new chapters cover Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing, social and emotional wellbeing in mainstream mental health services and quantitative research. Chapter content is complemented by case study scenarios, author reflections and reflection questions. These features illustrate historical and contemporary challenges, encourage students to reflect on their own attitudes and values, and provide strategies to deliver quality, person-centred health care.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Foreword
• Contents
• Foreword by Professor Christine Neville
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 Historical and current perspectives on the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• 2 A history of health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• 3 The cultural safety journey: An Aboriginal Australian nursing and midwifery context
• 4 Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
• 5 Indigenous gendered health perspectives
• 6 Community controlled health services: What they are and how they work
• 7 Midwifery practices and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women: Urban and regional perspectives
• 8 Indigenous birthing in remote locations: Grandmothers’ Law and government medicine
• 9 Remote area nursing practice
• 10 Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers and health practitioners
• 11 Indigenous-led qualitative research
• 12 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander quantitative research
• 13 Navigating First Nations social and emotional wellbeing in mainstream mental health services
• 14 Cultural understandings of Aboriginal suicide from a social and emotional wellbeing perspective
• 15 Indigenous child health
• 16 Caring for our Elders
• Index