Cultural Safety in Healthcare

Running head: CULTURAL SAFETY IN HEALTHCARE
CULTURAL SAFETY IN HEALTHCARE
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1CULTURAL SAFETY IN HEALTHCARE
PART-1
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2CULTURAL SAFETY IN HEALTHCARE
PART-2
I believe that health care profession is an integral part of a community and society, the
healthcare professionals like nurses, general practitioners or GP, health workers and
pharmacists play a crucial role in elevating the livelihood of a society and community. In this
assignment I have described four of my personal values, my beliefs and my behaviours
opinions when it comes to cultural safety in healthcare profession.
There are various parameters which determine the well-being of a person, and those
are referred to as social determinants of health and therefore, it is important to understand the
cultural back ground, social background as well as economic background of the person when
treating the person (Braveman & Gottlieb, 2014). The socio-economic as well as cultural
background can contribute towards livelihood as well as health of the person. In my opinion
there are different stigmas and biases that could lead to delayed action as well as health care
avoidance. There are evidences linked to poverty, mental health issues as well as experience
of discrimination in the health care domain. It could be understood that our approach towards
the inequalities and inequities in the healthcare profession must be changed and addressed.
According to Paul et al. (2015), there are social stigma and discrimination that are faced by
people who have encountered with illicit substance abuse. Therefore, health equity is an
important when it comes to healthcare. The patient centred approach has a strong alignment
with the evidence based practice in relation to the cultural safety. When I am treating a
patient the only motivation which works in the professional health care domain is empathy
towards patients so that I can treat the patient well. Therefore, to enable this, I believe that
evidence based practice is an excellent way to understand the patient centred treatment as
well as involve clinical research when comes to the treatment. According to Melnyk et al.
(2014) the evidence based approach can provide better and positive patient outcomes in
reference to the context care and cultural safety in the healthcare settings.