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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander subjects in a Graduate Diploma of Midwifery: A pilot study.

BACKGROUND Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council prescribes midwifery accreditation standards that support students' development in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and cultural safety to be deemed practice ready.… Click to show full abstract

BACKGROUND Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council prescribes midwifery accreditation standards that support students' development in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and cultural safety to be deemed practice ready. However, the impact of training programs are not widely explored. AIM This study aimed to assess the impact of a mandatory 8 - week online subject focussed on the development of culturally safe practices among midwifery students. METHODS The Ganngaleh nga Yagaleh cultural safety assessment tool was used to collect online quantitative data from post graduate midwifery students at the commencement and completion of an online subject. RESULTS Through a purposive sample (nā€‰=ā€‰10) participant perceptions of culturally safe practices remained relatively unchanged, except for three items of the Ganngaleh nga Yagaleh cultural safety assessment tool. DISCUSSION Findings demonstrate that when post graduate midwifery students are exposed to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives of Australia's colonial history it impacts their sense of optimism, personal values and beliefs about the healthcare they will provide to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. However, midwifery students who self-identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, reported a decline in optimism when imagining a healthcare system free of racism. CONCLUSION The subject did not impact on cultural safety scores. This may be due to prior learning of student midwives. Educators should consider building on prior knowledge in post graduate midwifery to ensure the content is contextualised to midwifery. IMPACT STATEMENT Understanding of learning outcomes from non- Indigenous and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in an online midwifery subject.

Keywords: torres strait; strait islander; midwifery students; aboriginal torres; cultural safety

Journal Title: Contemporary nurse
Year Published: 2021

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