Nursing practice with Aboriginal communities: expanding worldviews.
Through advances in interpretive inquiry, diverse ways of knowing and experiencing reality are increasingly made explicit in nursing literature. Nevertheless, the privileges of empiricism continue alongside a lack of language to consider other realms of reality. In this column, Aboriginal ways of constituting health and reality are explored. Morley's four categorizations of health belief systems provide a useful tool for understanding diverse worldviews. In contrast, Atleo drew on Nuu-chah-nulth origin stories to address the complexities and ambiguities of Aboriginal health beliefs. Approaches for bridging cultural differences are explored with a view toward inclusive healthcare and nursing practice.
School of Nursing, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D001955:British Columbia; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006694:Holistic Health; D006803:Human Development; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000208:ethnology*; D019359:Knowledge; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009229:Mythology; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D012660:Semantics; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019366:Western World