Oscar Best
Biographic Data
| ID | 366255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oscar Best |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oscar |
| FAMILY NAME | Best |
| SIGNATURE | BEST O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2362-0101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural Safety
‘Trying to work together’
We will remember COVID-19 not just for its interruption to our personal and working lives, but also for the way it influenced the writing of the new edition of our textbook Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care. Yatdjuligin is Australia’s first undergraduate-level text about Indigenous health issues written by Indigenous nurses, midwives and health practitioners. We produced the first two editions of the bo…
Some of Us Pushed Forward and Let the World See What Could Be Done
This paper locates the voices of Aboriginal nurses and midwives which only emerged in publications from the 1950s onwards. It seeks to privilege the voices of Aboriginal nurses and midwives, and recognise their contributions to the nursing and midwifery professions. It identifies two key developments in Australian history that influenced the acceptance of Aboriginal people into a career in nursing and midwifery: the gradual decline of policies of…
African American Fathers
Much of the literature on African American fathers has tended to perpetuate a stereotype of absent and unsupportive parenting. This study employs a life course perspective to investigate the extent and predictors of involvement by young fathers. Data come from the Rochester Youth Development Study, a longitudinal study that has followed a representative sample of urban youth since they were in the seventh or eighth grade. Analysis is based on the…
African American Fathers
Much of the literature on African American fathers has tended to perpetuate a stereotype of absent and unsupportive parenting. This study employs a life course perspective to investigate the extent and predictors of involvement by young fathers. Data come from the Rochester Youth Development Study, a longitudinal study that has followed a representative sample of urban youth since they were in the seventh or eighth grade. Analysis is based on the…
Some of Us Pushed Forward and Let the World See What Could Be Done
This paper locates the voices of Aboriginal nurses and midwives which only emerged in publications from the 1950s onwards. It seeks to privilege the voices of Aboriginal nurses and midwives, and recognise their contributions to the nursing and midwifery professions. It identifies two key developments in Australian history that influenced the acceptance of Aboriginal people into a career in nursing and midwifery: the gradual decline of policies of…
African American Fathers
Much of the literature on African American fathers has tended to perpetuate a stereotype of absent and unsupportive parenting. This study employs a life course perspective to investigate the extent and predictors of involvement by young fathers. Data come from the Rochester Youth Development Study, a longitudinal study that has followed a representative sample of urban youth since they were in the seventh or eighth grade. Analysis is based on the…
Some of Us Pushed Forward and Let the World See What Could Be Done
This paper locates the voices of Aboriginal nurses and midwives which only emerged in publications from the 1950s onwards. It seeks to privilege the voices of Aboriginal nurses and midwives, and recognise their contributions to the nursing and midwifery professions. It identifies two key developments in Australian history that influenced the acceptance of Aboriginal people into a career in nursing and midwifery: the gradual decline of policies of…
‘Trying to work together’
We will remember COVID-19 not just for its interruption to our personal and working lives, but also for the way it influenced the writing of the new edition of our textbook Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care. Yatdjuligin is Australia’s first undergraduate-level text about Indigenous health issues written by Indigenous nurses, midwives and health practitioners. We produced the first two editions of the bo…
Cultural Safety
Sociology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Adolescent development (1 work) · African american (1 work) · Collegiality (1 work) · Curriculum (1 work)