NSB202 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Well-being


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Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal

Unit code:NSB202
Credit points:12
Pre-requisite:NSB102 or NSN923
Coordinator:Mary-Claire Balnaves | mary.balnaves@qut.edu.au
Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Overview

An understanding of the social determinants of health and the impact of historical and contemporary policy and practice influencing the health and well-being of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders is essential to providing optimal health care. This unit privileges cultural safety as the preferred model to contemporary health care delivery in Australia. It promotes the position of the contemporary health practitioner as a fundamental member of the partnership with the health care recipient, and thus is necessary to enhancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and well-being. Cultural safety also makes conspicuous manifestations of racism which impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and well-being. Importantly, a culturally safe approach values the pivotal role of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples' self-determination in leading health care advances associated with their own care.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

  1. Apply the knowledge of the relevant National Safety and Quality Health Services Standards, and the NMBA’s Standards of Practice (2016) and Code of Conduct (2018) to the context of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders' health and wellbeing to reflect on and advance your understanding of culturally safe practice
  2. Apply the Uluru Statement’s principle of truth-telling to describe historical, social, and political issues, including manifestations of racism and how they inform current experiences of health and well-being, and realise their significance as determinants to Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders’ understanding and experiences of health and wellbeing
  3. Engage as a reflexive practitioner with the lived experiences of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders, valuing their voices, and describe how effective partnerships with individuals, families, and communities enables the sharing of experiences and perspectives
  4. Articulate the principles of comprehensive primary health care as a vehicle for understanding Aboriginal peoples' and Torres Strait Islanders' health and well-being in terms of self-determination and activism
  5. Critically analyse the Closing the Gap campaign, specifically targeted Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ health and wellbeing programs and associated professional roles to develop a deeper understanding of culturally safe and holistic responses to complex case studies.

Content

Course themes: Cultural Safety, Person-centred care and therapeutic relationships

NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice: 1, 2

Aged Care Quality Standards: 5. Organization Service Environment

ePorfolio: Reflective elements

Developing: developing reflexive practices in critical analyses of culturally safe practice in the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ health and well being.

Module 1

Cultural safety in the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and well-being. Further exploration of concepts such as racism, whiteness, and self-determination

Module 2

Respecting and valuing Aboriginal peoples' and Torres Strait Islanders' perspectives of historical and contemporary social and political issues, and their impact on health; diverse health care contexts role of Indigenous comprehensive primary health care, including self-determination, community control, collaboration, partnership and ownership; and key Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policies.

Module 3

Current and potential models of comprehensive primary health care and professional scopes of practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing.

Learning Approaches

This unit will use inquiry-based learning approaches to blended learning. A mixture of face-to-face and online activities that can be completed individually or with a group of peers will be undertaken. You will be expected to actively engage with and take responsibility for self-directed learning. The unit coordinator and the tutors are available for consultation throughout the semester in on-campus and online contexts. You are also encouraged to develop peer networks to support a collaborative approach to learning.

In order to appreciate the value of peers and the knowledge and experience they bring, small group tutorials will use structured exercises, yarning circles, readings and resources to lead collaborative learning, encourage clinical inquiry and to reflect on a range of issues.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

You will be provided with feedback and guidance to assist your learning throughout the semester through:

  • Formative feedback in class interactions throughout semester, individually and/or as a group
  • Immediate feedback on online quizzes, audio or written summative feedback on your journal and case study
  • The unit coordinator and tutors will be available for consultation throughout the semester in on-campus and online contexts

Assessment

Overview

The three assessment items in this unit develop your conceptual knowledge of underpinning principles, your ability to apply this in context through a cultural safety framework and to report and critically reflect on your engagement with, and reflection on your learning in contexts and processes authentic to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders’ health and well-being.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Engagement with core documents and concepts

You will complete small activities in canvas that are part of in-class participation and contribution to discussion. In this assessment you demonstrate your understanding of key unit concepts and answers are graded online. Feedback from results in this assessment prepares you for the two remaining assessments which are completed individually.

Weight: 10
Length: 10 small activities embedded in canvas.
Individual/Group: Individual
Due (indicative): within the tutorial series in weeks 1-5
Related Unit learning outcomes: 2, 4
Related Standards: NMBA: 1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 6, 6.1

Assessment: Cultural safety essay

You will utilise a structured framework to apply principles of cultural safety to the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' health and wellbeing. Furthermore, you will reflect on your learning experience.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Weight: 50
Length: 1500 words
Individual/Group: Individual
Due (indicative): Week 8
Related Unit learning outcomes: 1, 2, 3
Related Standards: NMBA: 1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 4, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 6, 6.1

Assessment: Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)

Demonstrate your understanding of culturally safe care in the contemporary context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' health. 

Develop a short professional development session in the style of an in-service presentation for nursing colleagues that focuses on one area of health within the lifespan of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (areas to select from provided).  In your presentation highlight how Indigenous led health care services are addressing this area of health and include an analysis of the sociopolitical aspects of care with reference to key documents (eg. Close the Gap).  In your presentation also briefly discuss examples of interpersonal and institutional racism that are combatted through Indigenous led health care service provision. Presentation includes narration and visual / text elements. 

This assessment draws on the unit concepts and content relevant to weeks 6-12. 

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Weight: 40
Length: 10 minutes presentation maximum with references integrated and listed on the last slide
Individual/Group: Individual
Due (indicative): Week 13
use of narrated powerpoint or similar is suggested
Related Unit learning outcomes: 1, 2, 4, 5
Related Standards: NMBA: 1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 4, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6, 6.1

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.

Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Resources

Resource Materials

Prescribed text(s)

Best, O. & Fredericks, B. [Eds.] (2021). Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nursing and midwifery care (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Risk Assessment Statement

If you are distressed by issues explored in the content of this unit you should approach academic staff or consult the university counselling service. You will be made aware of evacuation procedures and assembly areas in the first lectures. In the event of a fire alarm sounding, or on a lecturer's instruction, you should leave the room and assemble in the designated area which will be indicated to you. You should be conscious of your health and safety at all times while on campus. More information on health and safety can be obtained from http://www.hse.qut.edu.au/.

Standards/Competencies

This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.

Registered Nurse Standards for Practice

1: Thinks critically and analyses nursing practice.

  1. The RN develops practice through reflection on experiences, knowledge, actions, feelings and beliefs to identify how these shape practice
    Relates to: Engagement with core documents and concepts, Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  2. The RN respects all cultures and experiences, which includes responding to the role of family and community that underpin the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of other cultures
    Relates to: Engagement with core documents and concepts, Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  3. The RN complies with legislation, regulations, policies, guidelines and other standards or requirements relevant to the context of practice when making decisions
    Relates to: Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  4. The RN uses ethical frameworks when making decisions
    Relates to: Engagement with core documents and concepts, Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)

2: Engages in therapeutic and professional relationships.

  1. The RN establishes, sustains and concludes relationships in a way that differentiates the boundaries between professional and personal relationships
    Relates to: Engagement with core documents and concepts, Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  2. The RN communicates effectively, and is respectful of a person’s dignity, culture, values, beliefs and rights
    Relates to: Engagement with core documents and concepts, Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  3. The RN recognises that people are the experts in the experience of their life
    Relates to: Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  4. The RN provides support and directs people to resources to optimise health-related decisions
    Relates to: Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  5. The RN advocates on behalf of people in a manner that respects the person’s autonomy and legal capacity
    Relates to: Engagement with core documents and concepts, Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  6. The RN uses delegation, supervision, coordination, consultation and referrals in professional relationships to achieve improved health outcomes
    Relates to: Engagement with core documents and concepts, Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  7. The RN actively fosters a culture of safety and learning that includes engaging with health professionals and others, to share knowledge and practice that supports person-centred care
    Relates to: Engagement with core documents and concepts, Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)

4: Comprehensively conducts assessments.

  1. The RN conducts assessments that are holistic as well as culturally appropriate
    Relates to: Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  2. The RN works in partnership to determine factors that affect, or potentially affect, the health and wellbeing of people and populations to determine priorities for action and/ or for referral
    Relates to: Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  3. The RN assesses the resources available to inform planning.
    Relates to: Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)

5: Develops a plan for nursing practice.

  1. The RN uses assessment data and best available evidence to develop a plan
    Relates to: Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  2. The RN collaboratively constructs nursing practice plans until contingencies, options priorities, goals, actions, outcomes and timeframes are agreed with the relevant persons
    Relates to: Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  3. The RN documents, evaluates and modifies plans accordingly to facilitate the agreed outcomes
    Relates to: Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  4. The RN plans and negotiates how practice will be evaluated and the time frame of engagement
    Relates to: Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  5. The RN coordinates resources effectively and efficiently for planned actions.
    Relates to: Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)

6: Provides safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice.

  1. The RN provides comprehensive safe, quality practice to achieve agreed goals and outcomes that are responsive to the nursing needs of people
    Relates to: Engagement with core documents and concepts, Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)

Course Learning Outcomes

This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.

NS42 Bachelor of Nursing

  1. Apply scientific knowledge and skills from nursing and related disciplines to the provision of safe, person-centred, evidence-based nursing care across the lifespan
    Relates to: Engagement with core documents and concepts, Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  2. Apply critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and digital literacy skills to make evidence- based decisions and evaluate outcomes
    Relates to: Engagement with core documents and concepts, Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  3. Practice as an ethical, socially inclusive, and culturally safe practitioner, reflective of your professional nursing identity across a range of health service settings.
    Relates to: Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)

NS89 Master of Nursing - Entry to Practice

  1. Analyse and apply scientific knowledge and skills in context of nursing and related disciplines to the provision of holistic, person-centred, evidence-based nursing across the life span
    Relates to: Engagement with core documents and concepts, Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  2. Evaluate practice outcomes drawing upon critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills to examine person-centred nursing care and make evidence-based decisions
    Relates to: Engagement with core documents and concepts, Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  3. Practice as an ethical, socially inclusive and culturally safe practitioner, reflective of your professional nursing identity across a range of health service settings
    Relates to: Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)
  4. Demonstrate developing socially informed leadership capabilities of self and others to achieve positive individual and community outcomes in dynamic health care contexts
    Relates to: Cultural safety essay , Presentation: Yatdjuligin (yarning in a good way)