Reference no: EM133916148

Question

Ms Lowanna Ajabatha is a 40-year-old Wurundjeri woman. Lowanna moved to NSW twenty years ago when she was married, there Lowanna lived until her marriage ended three years ago. Lowanna has no children and she moved back to Melbourne two years ago. Lowanna now resides alone in a two-storey public housing estate. She has a pet cat, named Fluffy. Lowanna's father is deceased, and her mother, two brothers and one sister now live in Gippsland where they have lived for the last fifteen years. She has two aunties and three uncles along with nephews, nieces and elders residing across metropolitan Melbourne.

Lowanna has been admitted to the surgical ward this afternoon with right upper quadrant abdominal pain with associated nausea. Lowanna has a medical history of hypertension, asthma, appendectomy, hysterectomy and GORD.

You are the Enrolled Nurse allocated to care for Lowanna this afternoon. You are slightly apprehensive to meet Ms Lowanna Ajabatha as you have not had many interactions with an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person in your personal and professional life.

1. Identify and describe how one (1) Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community resource/interpreter/colleague could promote "cultural safety' for Lowanna in the hospital. This must relate to the case study.

2. Describe two (2) ways in which you can evaluate if and how Lowanna may have benefitted from the community resource/interpreter/colleague's attempt to promote cultural safety, while she was in hospital.