Alice Springs Hospital's Cultural Safety Practices for Aboriginal and Other Communities

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Alice Springs Hospital
Introduction
Cultural safety is known as a nursing practice that is effective of an individual or family from a
different culture that is regulated by the individual or the family. The origin of cultural safety is
nursing education and learning that can be selected from maturity, sexual orientation, beliefs in
religion and disabilities. Alice Spring Hospital is a major acute hospital in Australia which serves
Aboriginal individuals and other communities. The position of the hospital is that it offers
training regarding health. Effective communication is essential in promoting health literacy
hence improving the quality of healthcare services. Culture is the central position of how the
Aboriginal people view other individuals. Lack of proper planning and teamwork are the barriers
of the implementation of the position statement hence relevant stakeholders to work together to
ensure that the position statement is successfully implemented.
Position
Alice Springs Hospital is the main acute hospital for central Australia serving up to sixty
thousand individuals in the area including the foreigners with 186 beds. We offer a variety of
specialists subjects that encompass general medicine, nephrology, rehabilitation medicine,
palliative care medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology and
psychiatry, and many other health services. There is also a very active Renal Unit with onsite
dialysis and a 26-seat satellite dialysis unit (Einsiedel & Woodman, 2010). Many expertise
services are given on a visiting basis. Alice Springs hospital offers teaching services and a
campus of the Northern Territory Clinical School of the Flinders University of South Australia.
Also, in the Department of Pediatrics, medicine, surgery, and Obstetrics and Gynecology,

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academic appointments have been made. It also gave the mandate by the Northern Territory
Postgraduate Medical Council on behalf of the Medical Board of the Northern Territory for
internship and has a training program actively (Diplock, Ward, Stewart, Scuffham, Stewart, P.,
Reeve, & Maguire, 2017). The scope of the clinical services is unique focusing on infectious
illnesses and indigenous health. We also offer excellent training opportunities and experience
which is meaningful to general rural expertise and is a Universities of Sydney, Queensland, and
New South Wales affiliated teaching health facility.
It is the only main secondary referral health facility in Central Australia with a drainage area that
covers an estimated 1.6 million square kilometers and assists individuals who live in Northern
Territory and also in rural areas in Northern and South West Australia (Heppell, & Wigley,
2017). We also provide a robust junior doctor training plan with award-winning personnel of
professionals, and they are deeply committed to offering junior doctor various education and
training plan. There are also over thirty resident medical officers who help in educating the
public regarding health matters hence improving health literacy in the area.
Effective communication is essential to both health experts and health users. This is the
foundation of the association between experts and individuals (Miller, 2016 ). Effective
communication has helped Alice Springs Hospital in making decisions, informed consent and
assists self- management consisting of adhering to medication interventions. Also, the interface
includes easy access to interpreters; knowledge regarding health is accessible for different
audiences, respecting the rights, decisions and the views of individuals and helping improved
health literacy for health experts and the consumers. This is essential since communication helps
to enhance health literacy in tailor health education sessions and also assisting the consumers in
making decisions while knowing autonomy.