Cultural Safety Flashcards
Define cultural safety
Cultural safety refers to how health consumers experience nursing care in relation to their own culture and enables health consumers to be involved in health outcomes through commenting on their experiences.
What is the Maori term for cultural safety?
Kawa Whakaruruhau
Where does the term cultural safety originate from?
1980’s in NZ
Irihapeti Ramsden developed
cultural safety in nursing education - an educational framework for the analysis of power relationships between health professionals and those they serve
What is cultural safety underpinned by?
Communication, recognizing diversity in worldviews and impact of settlement processes on minority groups
What does demonstration of cultural safety in nursing practice enable?
Safe, appropriate and acceptable service
Improvement of the health status of New Zealanders
Health gains and positive health outcomes
Enhancement of the safe delivery of health and disability services
What is the process for achieving cultural safety in nursing practice?
Cultural Awareness – Understanding that there is difference beginning of education
Cultural Sensitivity – awareness of legislative difference, begin of self-exploration of own cultural beliefs and impacts on others
Cultural Safety – final outcome of nursing education enables them to provide safe service which is determined by the recipient of health care.
What is the purpose of the cultural safety guidelines?
The guidelines provide advice from the Council to nurses, to assist them to provide safe and competent nursing care.
Cultural safety provides a framework for engagement with patients so that patients can assert power and control over their own health and wellbeing.
