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  • Closing the Gap: Cultural safety in Indigenous health education

    Author(s)
    Rigby, Wayne
    Duffy, Elaine
    Manners, Jan
    Latham, Heather
    Lyons, Lorraine
    Crawford, Laurie
    Elidridge, Ray
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Duffy, Elaine
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    The challenge for the future is to embrace a new partnership aimed at closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians on life expectancy, educational achievement and employment opportunities. Significant improvements in contemporary Indigenous health care can be achieved through culturally safe health education programs for Indigenous students. However, while participation rates of Australian Indigenous students in the higher education sector are increasing, attrition rates are markedly higher than those of the general student population. This paper focuses on a unique degree program that is offered exclusively ...
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    The challenge for the future is to embrace a new partnership aimed at closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians on life expectancy, educational achievement and employment opportunities. Significant improvements in contemporary Indigenous health care can be achieved through culturally safe health education programs for Indigenous students. However, while participation rates of Australian Indigenous students in the higher education sector are increasing, attrition rates are markedly higher than those of the general student population. This paper focuses on a unique degree program that is offered exclusively to Indigenous students in the field of mental health in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health, Charles Sturt University. This qualitative exploratory study aimed to identify strategies that were especially helpful in sustaining students in the program and to identify and address barriers to the retention of students, to empower students to better prepare for the university environment and to inform academics within the course about areas that could be improved to provide a more culturally safe learning environment. The first stage of the study utilised focus group interviews with 36 Indigenous students across all three years of the program. The findings of the study addressing the issues of culturally appropriate pedagogy, curricula and cultural safety in the mental health degree program are discussed.
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    Journal Title
    Contemporary Nurse
    Volume
    37
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.5172/conu.2010.37.1.021
    Subject
    Nursing not elsewhere classified
    Nursing
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/44156
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