Week 5 - Culturally Safe Practice Flashcards
What is the Culturally Safe Nursing Practice?
Acknowledgement and respect the cultural values, beliefs, traditions, and practices of the people they care for.
Benefits of Culturally Safe Nursing Practice?
Environment where people feel safe, respected, and empowered to take part in their own health care.
Nurses should examine their own cultural biases, assumptions, and values to avoid biases affecting patient care. In order to provide discrimination-free care, they should constantly reflect on their attitudes and beliefs.
Self-reflection and self-awareness
Nurses should respect and value people’s cultural identity, values, and practices. It’s important to build trust, mutual respect, and collaborate with patients and their families.
Respect and partnership
Nurses should engage in open and respectful dialogue, listen actively, and understand their patients’ unique perspectives and needs. In order to cross language and cultural barriers, you may also need an interpreter.
Collaboration and communication
Assuring equitable access to healthcare, supporting informed decision-making, and promoting health literacy are all part of this. Advocating for the rights, choices, and preferences of individuals and communities
Advocacy
Nursing practice that’s culturally safe includes:
- Self-reflection and self-awareness
- Respect and partnership
- Collaboration and communication
- Advocacy
- Holistic
There’s an acknowledgement that physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being are interconnected. Nurses should take these dimensions into account when providing care.
Holistic
Tort
A civil wrong
Equity
Ethics
Various ways of thinking about, understanding and examining how to best live a moral life.
Statue
Laws that Support Confidentiality
Privacy Act (1988).
Health Services Act (1991)
Persons who are or have received a public health service, the principal duty of confidentiality is under s62A of the Health Services Act (1991)
Consent
Agreement as to opinion or a course of action
When can you breech confidentiality?
Self harm
Harm of another
DV
Health disease
Prof misconduct
SA
Elderly abuse
Disability abuse
Injury/death by firearm
Why is self-reflection important for cultural safety in healthcare?
It helps nurses gain insight into their own cultural biases & assumptions.
In nursing the ‘Need to Know’ principle refers to?
Limiting patient information those who require it for specific purposes
What is the first step nurses and midwives should take to ensure patient confidentiality on social media?
Limit sharing any patient-related content on social media
How can healthcare professionals best protect patient privacy and confidentiality in shared workspaces?
Avoid discussing sensitive patient information in public areas
When is it appropriate to share a patients health information on social media?
It is never appropriate to share a patient’s information on social media
What does cultural safety in healthcare aim to achieve?
Recognizing, addressing power imbalances between providers & patients.
What is the significance of cultural awareness in healthcare?
Helps healthcare providers recognize their own cultural biases & prejudices
What is the role of cultural safety in reducing healthcare disparities?
Cultural safety addresses the specific health needs of each cultural group.
Why is it essential to incorporate cultural safety principles in nursing education?
To equip nursing students with the skills to provide culturally safe care
What does ‘patient autonomy’ mean in the context of privacy and confidentiality?
Patient’s right to make decisions about control / access to their info
A person with ‘sufficient personal interest’ in your privileged information
A persons spouse, child, parent or gaurdian
For persons who are or have received
Need - to - Know Basis
Ensuring that access to sensitive patient information is restricted
A set of principle that govern the collection, use, and disclosure of personal health information in Aus healthcare setting
Australian Privacy Principle
Protecting you right to privacy in QLD: where people
