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Questions -

Question 1: When evaluating cultural safety, who should be considered an authority on if a service is culturally safe and provide two examples of how these responses can be formally collected and recorded? Why is it important to have culturally safe health services important? What is one indicator that your service is culturally safe?

Question 2: How will increasing cultural safety for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Persons make a safe space for all?

Question 3: List and describe at least 3 factors, other than lifestyle choices that contribute to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ill health and discuss 3 chronic health conditions and infectious diseases experienced by these groups.

Question 4: Describe how western systems and structures affects Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander persons and their engagement with health services. Consider the episode Heart failure: An investigation into the hidden killer in remote Aboriginal communities | Four Corners and how the structures and systems impede engagement.

Question 5: You have been asked to set up a medical practice in a rural NSW town that has a predominately Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander population. To ensure your service is culturally safe, how will you involve the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community in the planning and delivery of your services and programs? Please provide two examples for each.

Question 6: How can consultation with community representatives and community participation in decision making processes increase the participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in health service delivery?

Question 7: Summarise the community profile of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Persons in the Illawarra region AND another region of your choice. In summary include details such as languages, community organisations, housing, population, age etc. Please use the following resource to answer the question.

Clapham, K., Winch, S., Harwood, V., Kelly, P., Chandler, P., Senior, K. & Wu, D. (2016). Illawarra Aboriginal community profile: a snapshot of an urban Aboriginal community. Wollongong, Australia: University of Wollongong

Question 8: Community profile of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Persons in another region of your choice. Scroll to LGA's within the link Community Portraits - Aboriginal affairs - NSW

Question 9: Compare the two community profiles and discuss some differing diverse aspects.

Question 10: common stereotypes of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Persons both in your local area and in the media. What negative assumptions are sometimes made about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people??

Question 11: How do experiences and stereotypes shape beliefs and attitudes about Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Person/Persons?

Question 12: How the above assumptions affect your nursing practice and the way other health providers practice? How does this happen? What impact does that have on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Persons using the service?

Question 13: How to challenge these assumptions, reflect on the practice and assist the practice of other colleagues in the workplace?