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Cultural Safety
Available Now 2017, 247 x 174 mm, 420 pp 9781107455474 | Paperback (also available as an eBook)
Health Law
Frameworks and Context
Anne-Maree Farrell, La Trobe University John Devereux, University of Queensland Isabel Karpin, University of Technology Sydney Penelope Weller, RMIT University
Health Law: Frameworks and Context adopts a theoretically informed and principles-based approach to examining health law. Appealing to students and academic scholars alike, the text moves beyond traditional medical law frameworks to provide a broader contextual understanding of the way in which law intersects with health.
Contents
Introduction: 1. Health law: frameworks and context; Part I. Frameworks. Section A. Theories, Perspectives and Ethics in Health: 2. Philosophical bioethics and health law; 3. Socio-legal perspectives on patient-doctor relations; 4. Social determinants of health and the role of law; 5. Health and human rights law; Section B. Institutions and Regulation: 6. The regulatory framework for health in Australia; 7. Regulating health professionals; 8. Regulating patient safety and redress; Part II. Context. Section A. Patients, Doctors and Health Care: 9. Consent to medical treatment; 10. Substituted decision-making; 11. Medical negligence; 12. Confidentiality, privacy and access to information; Section B. Law at the Beginning and the End of Life: 13. Regulating reproduction; 14. Regulating emerging reproductive technologies; 15. Withdrawal and withholding of medical treatment; 16. Euthanasia and assisted suicide; Section C. Law and the Human Body: 17. Organ and tissue donation and transplantation; 18. Property and human tissue; 19. Biobanks; 20. Human genetics and the law; Section D. Law and Populations: 21. Indigenous health and the law; 22. Health law and people with disability; 23. Mental health law; 24. Public health law; 25. Global health and the law. Available Now 2015, 228 x 152 mm, 284 pp 9781107477445 | Paperback (also available as an eBook)
Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand
Second Edition
Edited by Dianne Wepa, Hawkes Bay District Health Board
In this second edition of Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand, editor Dianne Wepa presents a range of theoretical and practice-based perspectives adopted by experienced educators who are active in cultural safety education. Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand will equip students, tutors, managers, policy analysts and others involved in the delivery of healthcare with the tools to acknowledge the importance of cultural difference in achieving health and wellbeing in diverse communities.
Contents
Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. Towards cultural safety; 2. Cultural safety and the Nursing Council of New Zealand; 3. Cultural safety: daring to be different; Part II. The Foundations of Cultural Safety: 4. Cultural safety and continuing competence; 5. Culture and ethnicity: what is the question? 6. Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi 1840: its influence on health practice; 7. Exploring prejudice, understanding paradox and working towards new possibilities; 8. Navigating the ethics in cultural safety; 9. Being a culturally safe researcher; Part III. Fields of Practice: 10. Child, youth and family health care; 11. Cultural safety in mental health: a practice example; 12. Midwifery practice; 13. Culturally safe care for ethnically and religiously diverse communities; 14. Working with the aged: lessons from residential care; 15. Sex, gender and sexual orientation; 16. Maori health: Maori- and Whanau-centred practice; 17. Nursing and working with disability.
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Yatdjuligin
Third Edition
3rd Edition Yatdjuligin
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care
Edited by 0dette Best & Bronwyn Fredericks
15/12/20 11:29 pm Available Now 2021, 254 x 203 mm, 372 pp 9781108794695 | Paperback (also available as an eBook)
Edited by Odette Best, University of Southern Queensland Bronwyn Fredericks, University of Queensland
Australian Book Design Awards "Best Designed Educational Tertiary Book" 2022
Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care introduces students to the fundamentals of health care of Indigenous Australians, encompassing the perspectives of both the client and the health practitioner. Written for all nurses and midwives, this book addresses the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and mainstream health services and introduces readers to practice and research in a variety of healthcare contexts. This new edition has been fully updated to reflect current research and documentation, with an emphasis on cultural safety. Three new chapters cover Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing, social and emotional wellbeing in mainstream mental health services and quantitative research. Chapter content is complemented by case study scenarios, author reflections and reflection questions. These features illustrate historical and contemporary challenges, encourage students to reflect on their own attitudes and values, and provide strategies to deliver quality, person-centred health care.
• Author team comprising leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander academics, researchers and practising nurses and midwives • Encompasses both nursing and midwifery practice as well as the roles of Indigenous health workers and practitioners • Emphasises principles of cultural safety and culturally safe practice throughout
Contents
Introduction 1. Historical and current perspectives on the health of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2. A history of health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people 3. The cultural safety journey: an Aboriginal Australian nursing and midwifery context 4. Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing 5. Indigenous gendered health perspectives 6. Community controlled health services: what they are and how they work 7. Midwifery practices and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women: urban and regional perspectives 8. Indigenous birthing in remote locations: Grandmothers’
Law and government medicine 9. Remote area nursing practice 10. Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers and health practitioners 11. Indigenous-led qualitative research 12. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander quantitative research 13. Navigating First Nations social and emotional wellbeing in mainstream mental health services 14. Cultural understandings of Aboriginal suicide from a social and emotional wellbeing perspective 15. Indigenous child health 16. Caring for our Elders
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