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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander's People Study

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander's People Study

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IntroductionThis study uses the Gibb`s Model of reflection to reflect upon the experiences and attitudes towards the people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people during myinteraction with them. This report discusses the attitudes previous beliefs, values and attributes of the people before I met them and interacted with them (Stein-parbury, 2017). The paper uses the “ABCD” model of cultural assessment to examine their practices and beliefs regarding health in their community. The paper will help in understanding the people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander on community health,understand the disease control measures they used and the treatment they applied at that time.The impact of using the Gibbs model to make reflections on decision making is also evaluated. The final section of the paper is an evaluation of the impact that this assessment will have on my nursing practice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people while applying the Graduate attributes and RN standards in the evaluation. Thereport uses the Gibbs model of reflection steps to fulfill all the assessment requirements.Gibbs model is a learning model that is mostly used in the health profession and manyother professions to help a person reflect upon their past experiences and evaluate how these experiences had impacted on them. It is divided into six stages(Waldram, Herring &Young, 2016). The ABCD technique is a tool used to assess the culture and social lives of a society. It involves evaluation of asset based community developmentprojects.
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I had many beliefs and different attitudes towards the people of Aboriginal and TorresStrait Islander concerning different subjects. One of the attitudes that I have had aboutthe indigenous people of Australia is that they were uncivilized and unlearned.This attitude was influenced by the many conversations that I heard from my fellow students and other people who alleged to have interacted with these communities (Wright-st. Clair, Reid, Shaw & Ramsbotham, 2014). From this stories and some reading, I thought the indigenous people of Australia were so engraved in their culturethat they do not embrace education. I believed that very few people from the community were learned and were mostly involved in their traditional economic activities such as rearing of animals. The other assumption had about the indigenous people of Australia is that they never consumed modern scientifically researched medicines. The people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander are depicted in the society as people who do not believe in things made scientifically. I thought that the people depended on traditional medicine men and healers just like in the old days when civilization and medicine had not evolved to this point. I believed that the people depended on herbs and traditional medicine and were not ready for treatment in modern hospitals or to undergo surgical procedures. I also believed that the Aboriginal people have very limited knowledge on diseases and common illnesses in the modern day. I assumed that the Aboriginals did not know of diseases such as cancer, HIV, and Yellow fever. Another belief that I had concerning the people Aboriginals and people of Torres Islander is that they only ate traditional foods and wore traditional clothing. I thought that the Aboriginals ate traditional foods such as Yams, Arrow roots, unprocessed wheat and sorghum and they never ate industrially processed foods which are very popular nowadays. I also thought that the people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
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