Cultural Safety/Humility Flashcards
1
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health equity
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- absence of avoidable or remedial differences
- working with individual needs
- those with less may need more to help them reach equivalent health outcomes
2
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why is equity based health care important
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- important to be aware, to improve, to advocate
3
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how does equity based health care benefit providers
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- help the person using and equitable based lens make nurse feel like their doing the right thing
- helps us see tour goals
4
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how does equity based health care benefit organizations
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- saves money
- positive press
5
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3 components of equity based health care
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- trauma and violence informed care (TVIC): being respectful, comfort of client and reduce vulnerability, always talk to people using a trauma informed lens
- culturally safe care
- harm reduction
6
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Truman and violence informed care
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- expands on TIC
- it account for the intersecting effects of structural and interpersonal violence
- considering that clients may be living with the effects of previous exposure to violence, and may still be experiencing violence
- “what’s wrong?” to “what’s happened and still happening?”
- making people feel safe and welcome by asking population
- violence of system (structural violence)
7
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structural violence
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- societies are organized in ways that disadvantage some groups over others
- not providing equal access to services
- Jordans principle is an example
8
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vicarious trauma
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- intergenerational: not experiences but heard about and felt the impact
- negative reaction to trauma exposure and includes a range of psychological symptoms are similar to experiencing trauma
- providers are affected by seeing the impact of the condition of peoples lives, as well as by acts of violence people suffer (aka compassion fatigue)
9
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cultural safety
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- knowing your culture won’t be judged
- receive culturally competent care
- shifts attention away from culture differences as the source of the problem to the culture of health care as the sire where half providers can take action to create safety for all
- takes into account the inherent power imbalance between the health care/social service provide and the client
- cultural safety is decided by the client
10
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culturally competent care
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involves asking questions
- not assuming you know everything
- impossible to know everything about every culture
- something to work towards and develop
11
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cultural humility
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- self reflection and critique to understand person bias and to develop and maintain mutually respectful partnership based on mutual trust
- humbly acknowledging oneself as a learner when it comes to understanding another experiences
- recognizing flaws and knowing you have room to grow
- not being afraid to ask questions
12
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why do we need to focus on cultural safety for indigenous people
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- they have and continue to experience impacts of colonialization
- Canadian society has a long way to go to repair the wrongs
- health care creates and maintains systemic racism and negative stereotypes about indigenous people
13
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harm reduction
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- an approach to services designed to lessen the negative social, mental and/or physical consequences associated with a range of behaviors
- preventing the harms of substance abuse rather than stopping the substance use
- example: safe injection sites, safe ride programs, safer smoking supplies, having water at parties
- must question language, space, practice etc
14
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trauma informed care
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- focuses on understanding the impacts of trauma
- creating environments that promote emotional and physical safety
- not just about past events or specific violent/traumatic experiences
15
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how to treat all people
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- assume
- be alert
- create safe environments
- demonstrate knowledge
- engage respectfully
- foster opportunities
