Holistic Care on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Running head: HOLISTIC CARE ON ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER
Holistic care on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
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Executive Summary
This paper is reflecting on the Holistic care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander as
defined by NACCHO Constitution. It also discuss the barriers that prevent current
mainstream healthcare system from meeting the holistic health needs of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander peoples. The paper also critically discusses how individual nursing
professionals can become better advocates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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Table of content
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Holistic Care...........................................................................................................................3
Holistic health needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples................................4
The Barriers of the current Healthcare system.......................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References:.................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
The current condition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's health is at an
alarming level. In spite of various supports from governments, public organisations and
NGOs’ the overall condition of this community’s health is in danger (Kelly et al., 2011). This
paper focuses on the holistic approach to nursing and healthcare system and its successful
implementation on the Indigenous communities as included in the NACCHO Constitution.
The needs of these communities are also discussed along with the success and failure rate of
current healthcare system supported by Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service
(ACCHS). The current situations and barriers of the applied healthcare management have
been examined with supporting shreds of evidence. The purpose of this report is to identify
the barriers of the current healthcare system of holistic care on Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people and how individual nursing professionals can become better advocates for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Discussion
Holistic Care
Generally, the term ‘Nursing' refers taking good care of the patients’ health and
pathophysiological improvement that helps to recover a patient from his or her unhealthy
condition (Sue, 2007). Most of the time, this health care approach only includes taking care
of patient’s medication, diets needs, regular assessment and other traditional activities. As per
the definition of NACCHO, Holistic Care refers the specific caring approach where nursing
focuses not only on the physical health of the patients, rather focusing on the psychological,
social and physical well being of the patient are the major concerns (Smith, 2016). In this