How The Culture Gap Aboriginals Face Within A Particular Health Care Facility Within The Identified Region

In general, Aboriginal health services are ineffective. This is due to a wide variety of factors, but mainly due to a lack of trust/cultural miscommunication which is a catalyst for many other factors. This lack of engagement is due to a variety of factors, such as lack of access to health care, lack of aboriginal representation in the health workforce, ect. Overall, the difference in mortality rates between indigenous and non-indogneous peoples proves to highlight the need in the health community to provide effective services for Aboriginal people.

The benefits of this would be the staff understanding the culture and giving advice and health care that is appropriate to the individual’s needs. Once again by encouraging Indigenous Australians to in fact become the health care workers will also have benefits to these rural communities as they will see that the healthcare is nothing to be afraid of and will seek help when required rather than only when the illness is at its worst. Education is also an important key to Indigenous Australians accessing healthcare, if community leaders are educated to the healthcare that is available then they can pass this on to their community members, also if the community sees that the leaders are comfortable in accessing the health care then this would encourage them to also access the health care. Trust is important as if you do not have the trust within the community then it will quickly spread throughout that the healthcare setting is not to be trusted and Indigenous Australians will be too frightened to attend. Word of mouth is important within the community but you do not want people to have bad experiences then go back to their community and spread the word that they had a bad experience. As quoted by Florence Nightingale “unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going backwards.” (Nursing Schools.net,

I learned that Aboriginal seniors in Canada have more health care concerns than non-Aboriginal seniors and their needs are not well understood and were taken for granted by health care providers. I can apply in my nursing practice what I have learned from this topic that I will respect and acknowledge their culture and way of life. In addition to that, I will keep in mind that Aboriginal seniors needs more intensive support than non-aboriginal because of what they experienced at the reserved and residential schools. I want to learn more about their traditional practices

The outcome of cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity is cultural safety (Berg, 2010). In practicing cultural safety, it is not really expected that health care workers will know all cultures; it is acknowledging and respecting people regardless of their differences and beliefs (Hughes & Farrow, 2006). Moreover, nurses and other health professionals create cultural safe practice when the patients feel safe, respected and understood (Skellet, 2012), as well as if there is a shared understanding and acknowledgement of the unique identity and diversity. Health workers should always consider the cultural and historical background of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, because practicing cultural safety is significant to

The inequalities in today’s indigenous communities are still strongly evident. Heard, Khoo & Birrell (2009), argued that while there has been an attempt in narrowing the gap between Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians, a barrier still exists in appropriate health care reaching indigenous people. The Indigenous people believe, health is more than the individual, it is

Furthermore, measures need to be taken to increase both the quality and delivery of health care to the indigenous population, including culturally appropriate health services. Each Aboriginal sub-group has their own unique needs that must be taken in account for. Thus, health care

The current health system can be improved to further cater for Australian Aboriginals needs. When at a healthcare facility an Australian aboriginal should feel as if not only their physical well-being is being recognized but also there social, emotional and cultural well-being. Healthcare services should aim to provide the same quality of care to their indigenous patients and assist in giving them the best opportunities in life. I believe one way this can be done is through implementing health strategy’s that benefit the indigenous people. Throughout this essay the implementation of cultural competency training will be developed followed by my own reflections on how I would use this to aid my practice and how implementing this health strategy

Access to the communities is provided year round by Wasaya Airline and airstrips that are maintained by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. Of course, each Aboriginal community is unique with its own set of traditions and ways of healing but my observation after working within the communities for over ten years is that they all suffer from improperished conditions and substandard housing. The local economies are primarily based upon government services (Indian and Northern Affairs) (INAC) and small business. Most of the reserves have six hundred people or less, and each community has a nursing station. The nursing stations are well-maintained functional buildings built in or about the early 1960’s and are maintained by Health Canada. First Nations and Inuit Health (FNIH) maintains responsibility for primary care services in the majority of the northwest Ontario reserve communities. In the north, nurses are the primary care givers working in an extended scope of practice, and client care is centrally coordinated by nurses working within interdisciplinary teams. The majority of the nursing and medical staff working for FNIH in the Sioux Lookout zone are Caucasian and do not come from local communities. This could outwardly appear as a reinforcement of power relations in the racial identities. There is only very limited cultural training given to employees when they are employed by FNIH. Medical advice and

These services focus on a culturally safe and inclusive environment, utilising First People as front line health care workers such as nurses, doctors and receptionist’s, providing a collective understanding of First Peoples unique health challenges due to the impacts of invasion and colonisation.

The greatest challenge facing the Aboriginal population at the moment is health according to Weightman (2013). Moreover, Gracey and King (2009) identified inadequate clinical care and health promotion, as well as poor disease prevention services are circumstances that make the situation worst for Aboriginal groups. Further, Pearson (cited in Weightman, 2013) proposed that the only way to address such health crisis is by way of enabling local communities to take responsibility of their own affairs. With this intention, Indigenous community-controlled health services has been established since 1970 in order to empower local populations and facilitate services that would attend to the health demands of the population they served (Germov,

They would invent, new structures to deal with each communities’ individual needs. The goal is to empower the community. The Indigenous community from what I understand views their bodies as their land so it should under their control. They want more than just accessibility, they are working toward creating a system free from stigma and violence, that as culturally safe practices that are private within the community. Which might have inspired their philosophy is their bodies their choice no matter their gender identities, they speak for our indigenous community member, representing their different sexualities and different gender expressions. The authors address the impact of colonialism on has had on the culture, on impact is still being felt. The authors wish to reinstate the elders as educators in a culturally safe health care practices. They speak about have ng more options and resources. The strategies are to re-educate the community and allies, create more grass root organization within the community for the people by the people. to kill the notion that they need outside

To improve health services in the Indigenous communities, strong links needs to be built between the staff and the Indigenous Elders as this could help with the Indigenous community accessing the health services (Hayman et al. 2009). Having mutual respect, building trust and understanding is the key factor for making services accessible to the Indigenous people (ctgc-rs27 pdf document), and the community Elders are a vital conduit for respect, building trust, and acceptance (Scrimgeour & Scrimgeour 2008). When health services build solid relationship with the local Elders and regularly consulting with them and being genuine, this will then help with developing culturally secure services (ctgc-rs27 pdf document). It would be different though

3). Numerous minority groups exist present-day in many countries throughout the world. The Aboriginals, a minority group, in Canada reluctantly experience societal racism and judgemental views since the past and currently in the present 20th century. The ramifications are loss of culture and history through the abolishment of First Nations’ culture, and numerous social injustice and inequality regarding healthcare experiences. For the purpose of this paper, the patient must remain unidentified for confidentiality purposes. The stereotyping and discrimination towards First Nations people and the relationship between marginalization, intersectionality, and oppression needs to be addressed to promote cultural sensitivity to ensure healthcare equality in this vulnerable population.

Even before an Aboriginal person is tested for HIV, they have had negative experiences with the health care system (Reading (Loppie), Brennan, & Masching, 2013). Aboriginal health organizations such as BC Aboriginal AIDS Task Force and Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) have long advocated for the inclusion of the cultural context in health services and programming (Reading (Loppie), Brennan, & Masching, 2013). Reading (Loppie), Brennan, and Masching (2013) argue that it is becoming increasingly imperative for health professionals to provide care in a culturally appropriate way. The authors further highlight that culturally appropriate care has adapted in a variety of health care settings and countries to meet the needs of various multicultural societies (Reading (Loppie), Brennan, & Masching, 2013).

To analyze the results of evaluation, the evaluators will undertake a robust analysis to identify whether or not there are any differences in patient characteristics and treatments provided by the six Victorian hospitals to Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people. The qualitative data will be transcribed and analyzed by using NVivo software based on the evaluation frameworks. Whereas the quantitative data would be assessed by using SPSS in order to measure the impacts of the policy directions, funding, workforce competencies and performance to facilitate the change in service delivery. To strengthen the validity of findings, we also conduct triangulation that will help to compare the qualitative data based on the opinion of key stakeholders and quantitative data from any sources. After completing data analysis, we will conduct a consultation with key stakeholders to discuss the preliminary findings, to establish any conclusions, and then to identify a possible improvement for strengthening the evidence. To eliminate the possible bias in justifying a conclusion, we will conduct some reflection by involving Aboriginal people.