The First Nations Well being Unit delivers packages which can be particularly targeted on supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals and people who are a part of the Indigenous Well being Workforce. In the event you’re studying this text, it’s extremely doubtless that you’re a member of this Indigenous Well being Workforce. Our full suite of choices is on our web site on the hyperlink on the finish of this text, however proper now we’d like to offer a give attention to one program that you simply and your work colleagues could also be taken with. That is the Understanding Diabetes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Well being Employees and Practitioners program.
Because the identify implies, this system is targeted on Well being Employees and Practitioners, however all who work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander purchasers and group are welcome to take part. This system offers foundational data and makes use of the Feltman and Feltmum training device which is made by the Victorian Aboriginal Group Managed Well being Organisation (VACCHO) and Diabetes Victoria.
This system covers the same old matters you would possibly anticipate in a session corresponding to this and these embody:
- what’s diabetes;
- the distinction between sort 1, sort 2 and gestational diabetes;
- signs;
- issues;
- stopping issues and diabetes administration methods.
On this program although, the subject of diabetes is introduced from an Indigenous standpoint. This system begins off by analyzing well being earlier than colonisation, then examines the well being impacts that arose out of colonisation and concludes with analyzing the significance of social and emotional well being and wellbeing, not merely analyzing diabetes from solely a biomedical standpoint.
As we have now learnt to pivot and adapt to COVID restrictions over the previous two years, we have now develop into fairly adept at our expertise in on-line supply. Whereas our choice is all the time to ship packages corresponding to this face-to-face, we perceive this isn’t all the time attainable. We additionally perceive that given the schedules and workloads of the Indigenous Well being Workforce, it’s not all the time attainable to schedule each attainable skilled improvement alternative into your already busy schedules.
Thus, we have now developed this program in order that it may be delivered face-to-face or on-line in a one-to-two-hour interval (relying on the quantity of dialog generated). Whereas we have now a rolling month-to-month schedule of on-line deliveries already included into our calendar, the net nature of this system implies that we will reply to you and your workforce at your comfort. Whether or not its two of you or twenty of you, we will work with you to ship this system. If that appears like one thing that might profit you and your colleagues, please don’t hesitate to contact us by way of e mail at [email protected].
https://www.diabetesqld.org.au/about-diabetes/first-nations-health-unit/training-for-health-workers/
