Can a white nurse get it? 'Reflexive practice' and the non-Indigenous clinician/researcher working with Aboriginal people

Rural and Remote Health

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Rix, E F ^a   Barclay, L ^a   Wilson, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal health; Clinician researcher; Indigenist research perspective; Power relations; Racism; Reflexive practice

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY; RACISM; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RACISM; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 84904618201     PISSN: 14456354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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