INTRODUCTION Indigenous health is a vital tool in healthcare today. The case study concerns an indigenous woman from a remote community. This case study will define culture shock and transcultural theory. Finally, the recommendations that can be acquired to improve the current problem of indigenous health care will be indicated since it can be noted that indigenous health tends to get worse. Culture shock Culture concerns individual knowledge based on beliefs, art, moral customs. Therefore, culture shock occurs when people have different values and beliefs and do not tolerate each other's differences (Eckermann, Dowd, Chong, Nixon, Gray, & Johnson, 2006). The separation of important people in our lives such as family, friends, and colleagues with whom we sometimes speak often in our certainty can affect our physical, social, emotional, and mental health (Eckermann, Dowd, Chong, Nixon, Gray, & Johnson, 2006) . Jenny in this case has to fly to a hospital in a city to give birth, she is separated from her husband and her children, another example of culture shock is when Isabel is fed through a nasogastric tube while Jenny is used to breastfeeding. Indigenous Dispossession Germov, (2009) stated that the invasion and subsequent settlement of Australia by the British was declared terra nullius meaning unoccupied land. “The term reveals the ethnocentric belief that the continent's indigenous occupants had no rights to the land, because they did not exploit it as Europeans would have done,” (Germov, 2009, p.160). Indigenous Australians were nomadic and searched for food from place to place. According to Germov (2009), however, after the British people began to cultivate the land for ... half of the paper ... health has been a problem since the past and is still a problem issue until now. In conclusion, appropriate action needs to be taken to help indigenous Australians improve individual health, thus making society a better place for everyone. REFERENCES Crisp, J., & Taylor, C. (Eds.). (2009). Chapter 8, Fundamentals of Nursing by Potter & Perry (3rd ed.). Sydney: Mosby.Eckermann, A., Dowd,T., Chong, E., Nixon, L., Gray, R., & Johnson,S.(2006). Binan Goonj: Bridging cultures in Aboriginal health. (2nd.). Sydney: Churchill Livingston Germov, J. (2009). Second opinion: Introduction to the sociology of health (4th ed.). Victoria: Oxford University Press.Willis, K. & Elmer, S. (2007). Society, culture and health: an introduction to sociology for nurses. Victoria, Australia: Oxford University Press.
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