NUR344 Community Action Plan Template

NUR344 Community Action Plan Template
Part 1: Target group and Health Challenge
Select one of the two following target groups AND a significant health care
challenge facing this group to create context for your work:
 Indigenous Australians
OR
 A CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) group in Australia
 Fill out the table below as per instructions provided under ‘Assessment information
and submission’ on your NUR344 Learnline site.
 Once you have filled it out and saved it to your computer you may ‘copy’ (ctrl C) it
and ‘paste’ (ctrl V) your table into the discussion forum thread or insert it as an image
as convenient to you.
Community Health Nursing Action Plan
Target Group Indigenous Australians
The Indigenous and Torres Strait Islanders in
Australia are local Australians. All these
words involve individuals from communities
who lived before British settlement of
Australia and the outlying islands.
Health Challenge Type 2 Diabetes:
Type 2 diabetes is Australia's most rapidly

growing illness issue which had been
considered chronic. The predominance of
Type 2 diabetes among Indigenous and Torres
Strait Islanders is greater than that of the
nation as a whole. In Australia, the increasing
number of people suffering from type-2
diabetes most probably is drive by increased
rates of obesity, a reduction in physical
activity, changes in diet, and the aging
population. The predominance of type-2
diabetes among indigenous group of people is
3 to 4 times higher than that of non-
indigenous people in Australia. There is no
evidence to indicate that Aboriginals are
involved in conventional diets with diabetes
or other health problems, such as
cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure
or obesity. Research indicates that the
physiology of Indigenous Australians has
focused on making them effective, rural,
hunter-gatherers. Now that less Aboriginal
people have a traditional lifestyle, and are
more susceptible to the new westernization of
diets that are poor in fibre, high in fat and
sucrose, caffeine, smoking cigarettes and

sedentary lifestyles, their once-effective
metabolism can now overcome them.
A major disadvantage now may be the genetic
makeup that allowed indigenous peoples to
survive while food was scarce, promoting
weight gains, diabetes and diseases, such as
cardiovascular diseases and hemophilia.
Research has shown the elevated rates of
obesity and glucose tolerance, blood pressure,
high triglyceride (fat) levels in the blood and
excessively high blood insulin in Aboriginal
people living in the Westernized Lifestyle.
The cumulative hereditary predisposure and
poor lifestyle of Aboriginal Australians thus
leads to the elevated incidence of type 2
diabetes (mydr.com.au, 2020).
Promotion and Maintenance of Health Diabetes Type 2 treatment involves
improvements in the style of life (weight loss,
dietary changes, increased physical activity),
blood glucose regulation, and in some
instances insulin-controlled blood sugar (oral
hypoglycaemic medicine) if appropriate.
Daily regulation for diabetes symptoms is
also needed for diagnosis. Naturally,
successful diabetes prevention and