Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Cultural Safety in Healthcare

2 Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Cultural Safety
diploma of Nursing
ASSESSMENT TASK 1 – QUESTIONING
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Cultural Safety
Q1. What does it mean for a healthcare centre (clinic or hospital) to be culturally safe?
Ans. In a healthcare centre, culturally safe word is defined as the interconnection power among the care
providers or nurses as well as those in their care. The cultural safe environment consists their personal
reflective practices which as a means of determining the beliefs that are inherited in a particular culture of
the care provider. A cultural safety is basically concept of care. The receiver of the care provider are
encouraged to choose what is culturally safe rather than complying passively to the care providers or the
healthcare professionals. The safety of the culture needs a level of knowledge and their private skills
which basically improves the skills of communications as well as interconnection among the other
members. In a healthcare organisation, the cultural safety involves some following steps to achieve the
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safety such as the awareness regarding culture as it builds an individual's culture and identification of the
similarities and differences of their qualities of the cultural groups. Second step involves the identification
of the cultural domains and the last step involves in this is development of skills regarding the cultural
safety such as communication skills and so on (Hayre-Kwan et. al., 2021).
Q2. Why does a service need to be culturally aware and culturally competent if they are going to become
culturally safe?
Ans. It is necessary to be culturally competent because in an organisation they contains a capability to
bring forward their systems into various different attitudes, policies as well as the behaviours and also
they work effectively in the different cultural settings in order to provide the meaningful outcomes. A
cultural competence generally offers a framework in order to succeed the following aim which is about
the betterment of all the peoples as the competence reduces the wellness discrepancy as well as enhances
the public wellness outcomes. It is quite essential for the members in an organisation to be culturally
aware because a variety in a workplace can particularly enhance the team success by enabling the inputs
from many different sources. In context with the care providers, the concept of awareness about cultures
can develop the working environment among all the members and it also enhances peoples experiences as
well as satisfaction with a particular care (Sheridan & Geia, 2020).
Q3. Identify three (3) benefits of a culturally specific clinic for the patient and the healthcare
professionals:
Ans. The cultural competence particularly make benefits to the health care systems as well as the ill
people also. The cultural competence generally results in increased participation of ill people and also
their engagement, development of understandings and foster respects which generally leads to make
benefits in a health care organisations. These benefits includes the health benefits as it enhances the
patients safety and decreasing the inefficiencies, the social benefits as it enhances the respects and
understanding among the patients and an systems, also enhances the participation among communities.
Another benefit includes such as business benefits as it reduces the obstacles which slow downs the
progress and develops the skills of the services which includes care (Stuart & Smith, 2020).
Q4. Most clinic’s do not cater exclusively for ATSI people. Many ATSI patients need to, or may choose
to, access mainstream services. List three (3) examples of what mainstream services can do to try .
Ans. The mainstream services are the services which are generally dedicated towards providing the
quality of resources for people's development. In context with health, the mainstream services indicate the
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governing science based biomedical theory of the healthcare that are practised in the developing world in
order to enhance the results of health of the aboriginals and Torres Straits Islanders and their power
should be shared across and in between the sectors. The examples which should be adapted by the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander includes building of the trust and for others also, reflecting on an
individuals culture as well as beliefs, and lucid and respectful intercommunication between people.
Evoking an understanding about their cultures within a wide population is quite important to their
wellness, emotional health, social.
Q5. Describe the experience that someone of ATSI descent may have when accessing a service that is not
culturally competent or safe.
Ans. When the Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander did not receive the cultural competence or the safe
culture it directly impacts on their healthcare. It is because from a research it is analysed that the cultural
safety for ATSI can particularly advance the nature as well as the range of the various health care services
which make positive impacts over their health or well-being. If the safe culture or the competent does not
meet the ATSI then it leads to decrease in their self cognition, evaluation as well as systemic reflection.
As the safety of culture in a particular organisation or healthcare systems generally ensures that their
cultural beliefs do not impact negatively over the Aboriginals (Gomez Cardona et. al., 2021).
Q6. List three (3) things that someone of ATSI descent may see in a service that is culturally competent
and culturally safe.
Ans. In order to be a culturally competent and culturally safe, the health care service providers must
ensures about the cultural knowledge shapes which involves the service structures, the particular
strategies or the practices which are being employed, and last but not the least it involves the selection
choices, training as well as actions of an individual members. In order to attain a cultural safe or
competent environment it must include developed language skills, communication skills, respect their
beliefs, attitudes or behaviours. As these such factors directly impacts on the improving the health of an
individual (Thackrah & Thompson, 2018).
Q7. Provide at least two (2) examples of how the service could get feedback about whether their service
and staff practices really are culturally safe and competent
Ans. It firstly involves the involvement of the Aboriginal peoples in evaluation and secondly the
evaluation of the services as well as programs against the favourable results.
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