Cultural Safety in Health Care Provision

Running head: CULTURAL SAFETY IN HEALTH CARE PROVISION 1
Cultural Safety in Health Care Provision
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Cultural Safety in Health Care Provision
Today, health practitioners are charged with the responsibility of providing health care,
case management, and health-related education to a greatly diverse population that is in
opposition with series of cultural, health literacy, and linguistic barriers. Currently, both
language and culture play roles in the applicability and acquisition of health literacy skills.
Primarily, so as to effectively work with culturally and linguistically diverse populations,
these goals ought to be met; develop both existing understanding and knowledge of different
population based on the diversity, highlight and explore the impact of cultural background on
health care provision, and gain insight into the repercussions of cultural incompetence. In line
with the goals, the action plan has the following four key objectives.
Establish a Culture of Cultural Safety
Central to this objective would be developing and establishing a blend between health
provision and social services (Hayden & Jalla, 2015). This will include a commitment from
leadership, organizational structures, and policies so as to successfully fix cultural safety.
Nourish Staff Capacity
Training and other professional development measures would help boost staff capacity.
Not only would such ventures enhance knowledge but also ensure medical practitioners are
skilled and well behaved towards the provision of equitable and appropriate health care that is
culturally safe.
Improvement to Client and Community Experiences

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Generally, client and community experience deserve in-depth consideration so as to
ensure culturally safe relationships are sustained.
Notably, cultural safety and in turn cultural competency are broad and would require
pooling a number of resources. This action plan is likely to be curtailed by the inadequacy of
resources such as funding and medical backing as a whole. Bearing that in mind, these barriers
can be counterbalanced by facilitated partnerships between colleagues in the medical world, and
social workers (Parnell, 2018). This move would aid in the formation of interdisciplinary
formations that could collaborate on health literacy, language, and culture.
Secondly, to counter the barriers to the action plan, funding will be made available
through campaigns via health advocates who are well versed with convincing health care funding
organizations. They would efficiently highlight how impaired means of communication
negatively impacts patient safety and health care provision. Moreover, they would go forth to
point out that countering health literacy barriers brings down costs tied to communication-related
breakdowns and health care provision errors (Henderson, Horne, Hills, & Kendall, 2018). Such
costs include but not limited to hiring interpreters and legal costs in the event of a medical error.
Essentially, the success of the action plan calls for client engagement so as to assess
whether cultural respect has been met in their care. The staff will be trained to ensure they are
knowledgeable and skilled, attitudinal behaviors will also be looked into, and finally policies will
also be revised where need be. These measures will ensure that the action plan aligns with
cultural safety requirements of health care provision.
The firm incorporation of cultural safety in the health and services care requires paying
attention to the patients’ voices. This will be made possible through increasing the awareness on