The choices people make are informed by their life experiences. As April’s story shows, healing is possible! Many Aboriginals try to escape their pain through self-medication with alcohol and drugs. Bias and discrimination against Aboriginal peoples and their ways of knowing and being often make integrating into society, such as accessing training or education and getting a job, very difficult. Personal identity is a self-concept that comes from one’s knowledge of one’s membership in a social group, and the resulting sense of value and emotional significance.
Current Practices: Current Practices in British Columbia and other Jurisdictions Custom adoption is an extension of custom care, which offers temporary or substitute care for Aboriginal children whose parents are not able to care for them. Custom adoption enables Aboriginal families, governing bodies, and communities to use a culturally appropriate way of partaking in the permanency planning for Aboriginal kids. Each event is projected to fit the unique ethnic, spiritual, and linguistic needs of each child. This is a part of the current practices of Aboriginal Adoptions. (Adoptive Families Association of BC, 2015) YellowHead Tribal Services Agency (YTSA) in an alliance with five Alberta First Nations; Alexander, Alexis, Enoch, O'Chiese and Sunchild First Nation, have successfully operated a custom adoption program since 1999.
Assignment 1: Current Australian Social Policy Health within Australian Indigenous communities is vitally important. There are many social policies, which cover this large area and all hold great importance of understanding the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. The policy in which I am basing my assignment on is Third National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Blood Borne Viruses and Sexual Transmissible Infections Strategy 2010-2013 published by Department of Health and Ageing. The health and wellbeing of Indigenous people is a very current and important social issue. This policy covers the groups of Indigenous people affected by STI’s, goals and indicators,
And how do care services providers that are supposed to deliver utmost care and support become one of the major contributing factors of abuse. The concept of Safeguarding Those who need safeguarding help are often elderly and frail, living on their own in the community, or without much family support in care homes. They are often people with physical or learning disabilities and people with mental health needs at risk of suffering harm both in institutions and in the community. According to the Statement of Government Principles on Adult Safeguarding (2011), safeguarding encompasses six key concepts: empowerment, protection, prevention, proportionate responses, partnership and accountability. Social care organizations play an important role in the protection of members of the public from harm and are responsible for ensuring that services and support are delivered in ways that are high quality and safe.
Running head: CULTURAL SENSITIVITY 1 Cultural Sensitivity in Professional Communication with the Amish Kathy U. Walker Grand Canyon University: NUR 502 May 8, 2013 Cultural Sensitivity in Professional Communication With the Amish It is a well-known fact that disparities in healthcare exist among minority groups. The nursing profession, in an effort to deliver more appropriate and individualized patient care, is continually gathering data that can influence the patient’s experience. One very important arena is that of culture. Culture can be a determining factor in the care delivered, and therefore should be included in the approach to maintaining and restoring health (Barker, 2009). One such minority culture is that of the Amish.
Some of the major concerns mentioned included, “lack of work programs, difficulties in forming a permanent family life with a partner, feelings of shame and disrespect, an insecure future, and a sadness regarding life’s outcome. These findings suggest that antipoverty programs should focus not only on financial concerns but also on the individual’s desire to be a contributing member of society” (Nicholas & JeanBaptiste, 2001, pg. 1). Each woman shared their desires for wanting to become independent of public assistance, but expressed their desires for wanting other programs implemented to assist them. Social policies mentioned in the article which are currently available for recipients to receive assistance were TANF, AFDC, Welfare Reform Act of 1996, food stamps, and housing assistance.
Workforce reform should also be considered to promote technical efficacy as it is clearly demonstrate in rural Australia that shortages of general practitioners has lead experiences nurses to up-skill to provide larger range of primary care services to reduce the burden of general practitioners. These had lead to overburdening staffs with excess hours. (Duckett,
In most societies, birth and the immediate post-partum period are considered to be a time of vulnerability for the mother and child – a time of ritual danger. In order to deal with this danger, people tend to produce a set of culturally specific practices and beliefs designed to manage this time of uncertainty (Davis-Floyd 1992). It is for this reason that childbirth is an excellent topic to show the impact of globalization. Circumstances Before and After Event Tamil Nadu is a poor community and traditional childbirth took place in the privacy of the home either alone, with an experienced family member, or with a midwife if available. In her research Van found that certain aspects of modernization had a large impact on childbirth in Tamil Nadu, which include the growth of the obstetric field, assistance in managing the pain of birth, developing companies aiming to spread a medical thought process for childbirth, as well as an international law to reduce the population in India.
MEMORANDUM To: Dr. John N. Austin, Vice President From: Jasleen Smith, Senior Analyst Cc: Renee S. Jones, Director Date: July 7, 2012 Subject: Proposal to Implement Alternative Work Schedules Attached is my proposal to implemented alternative work schedule options at Three L’s Ink. Three L’s Inc.’s normal hours of operation are 8:30 am. – 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Three L’s Inc. employs one hundred twenty six people, six administrators, one hundred ten professional staff and ten administrative assistants. Thirty five percent of these employees are single parents and another twenty percent care for a dependent (elderly parent or adolescent family member).
The situation within the modern Scottish healthcare setting merits the implementation of a family nursing approach. This will ensure that the family is assessed on not only its ill-health and its care but more importantly, the health and prevention of ill-health of the family as a whole (Scottish Executive, 2003a). To guide practice, an possible appropriate family nursing model will be discussed, along with its benefits and drawbacks associated with its implementation into the Scottish situation. The reasons for the gap in theory of family nursing will be discussed. Finally, conclusions will be drawn in relation to