Healthcare professionals' cultural safety practices for indigenous peoples in the acute care setting - a scoping review.

Background: For Indigenous Peoples the disparities in health status are largely associated with the direct social determinants of invasion and colonisation, marginalisation, intergenerational traumas, and lack of conscious government policy to address these ongoing effects. There is currently limited evidence in the literature on what Cultural Safety practices mean in acute care settings.

Objective: We aimed to understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to current knowledge and evidence regarding Cultural Safety practices for Indigenous Peoples in acute care settings.

HOW CAN SCHOOLS OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PREPARE THEIR GRADUATES TO ENCOURAGE MEDICATION ADHERENCE FOR AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER CLIENTS?

Research undertaken in mainstream Australian studies show that the overall rate of medication non-adherence has been reported to be high, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia leading to adverse and critical health outcomes (AIHW 2010).

Confronting the cultural challenge of the whiteness of nursing: Aboriginal registered nurses' perspectives.

Abstract This paper presents the findings of a study that interviewed Aboriginal nurses to explore their experiences of the whiteness of nursing. Despite concerted efforts to improve the health of Aboriginal Australians, it still remains equivalent to third world countries. One strategy identified to address this is to increase the participation rates of Aboriginal registered nurses within the Australian healthcare workforce.

An Aboriginal nurse-led working model for success in graduating Indigenous Australian nurses.

Abstract Australia needs more Indigenous nurses. This is widely recognised in both academic literature and government policy. In 2012, only 0.

Confronting the Cultural Challenge of the Whiteness of Nursing: Aboriginal Registered Nurses' Perspectives.

Abstract This paper presents the findings of a study that that interviewed Aboriginal nurses to explore their experiences of the whiteness of nursing. Despite concerted efforts to improve the health of Aboriginal Australians, it still remains equivalent to third world countries. One strategy to address this that has been identified is to increase the participation rates of Aboriginal registered nurses within the Australian healthcare workforce.

An Aboriginal nurse-led working model for success in graduating Indigenous Australian nurses.

Abstract Australia needs more Indigenous nurses. This is widely recognised in both academic literature and government policy. In 2012, only 0.

Two Aboriginal registered nurses show us why black nurses caring for black patients is good medicine.

In Queensland, Aboriginal nurses are limited in number in comparison to the mainstream nursing workforce. More Aboriginal registered nurses are needed to cater for Aboriginal patients in our Australian healthcare system in view of today's burgeoning Indigenous health crisis. It is a foregone conclusion that Aboriginal nurses are the most suitable nurses to provide optimal cross cultural care for Aboriginal patients, due to having similar cultural backgrounds.