Cultural Safety in Nursing and Healthcare: A Literature Review

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Nursing Standard, 31(49).
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Journal of clinical nursing, 25(9-10), 1193-1205.
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Holistic treatment
Autonomy
Equality
Professional development
Integrity
Family centered care
Effective communication
Empathy
Non-judgmental acceptance
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Introduction
McLennan et al. (2016) highlighted that cultural safety is one of the
crucial factors in the clinical practice that facilitate safe and responsible
care. In this context, reflecting on the values and beliefs aid in understanding
the region that requires further development and may impact the cultural
safety of the patient can prevent cultural discrimination in the clinical setting
and facilitate professional practice (Kurtz et al., 2018). Hence, this paper will
provide a reflection on the values, beliefs, and behavior and their impact
on my culturally safe practice in the following paragraphs.
Discussion:
Beliefs:
In the clinical setting, the patients coming from different cultural
background tend to have distinct spiritual and cultural beliefs and hence,
they expect health professionals to maintain those beliefs (Usher et al.,
2017). In this case, the holistic treatment process incorporate religious
values of the patients to provide culturally safe care to the patients (Garneau
& Pepin, 2015). Incorporation of the cultural values is what restores the
physical and mental wellbeing (Conroy et al., 2018). This is the area where
my beliefs may impact the culturally safe practice and I require to focus on
this area in order to involve in culturally safe practice in the future.