Cultural Safety in Healthcare for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

CASE STUDY

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SR. QUESTION RESPONSE
1 Briefly discuss Rheumatic Heart
Disease and the cause, including
factors that may have led to Shakira
contracting the disease.
 Identify and explain two social
determinants of health that may
have made Shakira more susceptible
to the disease.
 Explain how one of these
determinants may have affected
Shakira’s family’s decision- making
around her care.
 Include the standard treatment
required
 Include relevant Indigenous
statistics for RHD compared to the
mainstream population(Price 2017).
Rheumatic heart disease is a situation as per this
the heart valves are permanently damaged by the
fever which is associated with the rheumatic fever.
This is caused by the rheumatic fever. This is a
inflammatory disease which affect various
connective tissue. There are such organ are heart,
joint and brain.
 Income level and food insecurity and
inaccessibility of the nutritious food
choices.
 As per this, Shakira is from low income
level family and this create hindrance in
their treatment and this change the decision
making of family.
 Need surgery to replace the damaged
valves.
 At December 2017 there are 4255 people
living with RHD recorded in state and 87
percent were indigenous Australian such as
3687 diagnose.
2 Explain how you will provide
culturally safe care as an Enrolled
Nurse by defining and giving one
example of the following terms:
(a) Cultural awareness
(b) Cultural sensitivity
 Cultural awareness provide the organic
behaviour in term of disease and this
usually help health care team to provide
their best outcome.
 The cultural sensitivity is use to defined as
the raise conflict.
3 By acknowledging the impact of
events and issues throughout the
history of Australian and Torres
As per this mental and physical health is use in
such a way which help them to know more and
more. There are various function which is stated in
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