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.

Yatdjuligin introduces students to the fundamentals of health care of Indigenous Australians.

About the Author
Odette Best is a Wakgun clan member of the Gurreng Gurreng Nation and holds a Boonthamurra bloodline with adoption ties to the Koomumberri, Yugambeh people. Odette is Professor and Associate Head: Indigenous Research and Community Engagement, School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Southern Queensland (Ipswich Campus). She commenced her training at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in the late 1980s, and further holds a Bachelor of Health Sciences (double major in Aboriginal Health and Community Development), Master of Philosophy and a PhD. Odette has worked for 30 years in Indigenous health. Clinically Odette worked for a decade, as sexual health coordinator at the Brisbane Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service and within the women's and youth prison systems across Brisbane. In 2000 Odette moved into discipline teaching within nursing in tertiary sector. Odette's leadership in Indigenous health and Indigenous nurse research is acknowledged globally and she is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (the only Aboriginal Australian nurse), a Churchill Fellow (the first Aboriginal Australian nurse) and a Fellow of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives. As an historian of Aboriginal nurses and midwives, Odette is passionate about uncovering and documenting the experiences of Aboriginal nurses and midwives and saving them from historical oblivion. Odette is Ivy Molly Booth's granddaughter. Bronwyn Fredericks an Indigenous woman from South-East Queensland with over 30 years of experience working in and with the tertiary sector, State and Federal Governments, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-based organisations. She is a Professor and the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) at the University of Queensland, and still maintains an active research program. Prof Fredericks is a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Research Advisory Committee (RAC), the Beyond Blue National Research Advisory Committee and a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts. In 2016, Bronwyn was appointed as the Commissioner with the Queensland Productivity Commission (QPC) (one of only two appointments) to lead the Inquiry into service delivery in Queensland's remote and discrete Indigenous communities. In 2018, she was again appointed to work on Queensland's Inquiry into Imprisonment and Recidivism, which was completed in 2019.


Book Information
ISBN 9781108794695
Author Odette Best
Format Paperback
Page Count 360
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 884g
Dimensions(mm) 253mm * 203mm * 20mm