Providing Safe, Holistic, Individualised Nursing Care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Patient

PROVIDING SAFE, HOLISTIC, INDIVIDUALISED NURSING CARE TO ABORIGINAL
AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PATIENT
Name of Student
Institution Affiliation

Description
Leaning about the provision of safe, holistic, individualized nursing care to Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islanders was one of the topics that attracted my attention in this unit.
Interacting with course materials and doing personal research gave me a chance to learn more
about what provision of safe care to the Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders entails.
Consultations inside and outside the class also provided an opportunity to gain more knowledge
on the topic. I attended class lectures, carried out personal research and consulted my colleagues
because of the particular desire that I have in providing culturally safe care in my practice. The
outcome was that id gained much more knowledge than I anticipated. I had to make a summary
of key points to make the topic more understandable; However, I did not do much reviewing of
the external sources used to review their authenticity. I had to cancel personal plans to attend all
the lectures and carry out relevant research on the topic. The topic has left me more aware of the
issues that I should focus on during my practice to improve the outcome for the Indigenous
Australians. Focusing on the provision of culturally safe care has improved the health status of
the improved access to healthcare services for the Indigenous Australians (Taylor & Guerin,
2010).
Feelings
Leaning about this topic came with mixed feelings. At first, I did not attach so much
significance to this topic as the main contributor towards optimum care outcomes for the
Indigenous Australians. I was actually happy to learn that I can play a role in improving the
health outcomes of Indigenous Australians by providing culturally safe care in my practice. I,
however, sympathized with the current health state of the group based on the challenges that they
face in accessing culturally safe care. I was not happy by the fact that the current health quality