WBM Rewrite

Minymaku Kutju Tjukurpa Women’s Business Manual Revision of the 3rd Edition

Congress Alukura and Nganampa Health Council have been funded by OATSIH to produce the 4th edition of “Minymaku Kutju Tjukurpa” (Women’s Business Manual).
Background Information
The third edition of Minymaku Kutju Tjukurpa – Women’s Business Manual was published in 1999 as a companion volume to the CARPA manual. It is out-dated and in urgent need of revision. It contains standard protocols to help health staff manage Aboriginal women’s health in Central Australia. The protocols in the manual aimed to give the best outcomes for remote area practice in Central Australia. The manual was directed at female community health nurses and doctors. It assumed competent general nursing skills, rather than expert midwifery skills. The Editors considered that, dependent on their experience and English literacy skills, some Aboriginal health workers would be able to use the manual directly to look after their clients. We hoped that the manual would be a useful teaching and learning resource, especially for staff with little experience in Aboriginal women’s health and in remote area practice. We specifically aimed to provide culturally appropriate background information and orientation information for health staff dealing with aboriginal women.
Project Outline
This project is managed through the Centre for Remote Health under the guidance of a Steering Committee composed of Congress Alukura and Nganampa Health Council representatives.

Our project officer will collaborate with health practitioners throughout Central Australia and the Top End. We aim to produce a widely accepted standard treatment manual, and a complimentary background justification document in the style of the current edition of the CARPA manual.

We are contacting a range of practitioners throughout the region to invite their participation in working groups which are critical to the success of the project. The working groups will consist of both specialist and primary health care practitioners, with a particular interest and expertise in delivery of health care to Aboriginal women in our environment. The Editorial Committee for the manual will be drawn from the working groups.

The principal tasks of the working groups are:

  • Discussing and commenting on revised protocols to ensure that they are relevant and appropriate to local practice
  • Helping to reach consensus on contentious management issues to allow adoption of standard guidelines
  • Forming subgroups to collaborate to write some of the protocols. In general however, primary authorship of protocols will not be the principal role of the working groups

Survey of User Needs
A brief survey to assess users’ needs for the new edition of the manual is being conducted. This survey has been circulated to practitioners throughout the region. It can also be downloaded from this site. Access to a copy of the 3rd edition is needed to complete the survey.
Download WBM user survey.pdf (104KB) here.

A copy of the Table of Contents of the 3rd edition is available by email from wbm@palya.org.au.

Brief comments about the manual can also be sent by email to this address.
Please fax your completed survey form to:
Kerrie Gell (02) 4322 2251
or mail it to:
Kerrie Gell, Nganampa Health Council, PO Box 2232, Alice Springs 0871.
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