Cultural Safety for the Indigenous People in Australia

Running head: CULTURAL SAFETY
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Tittle: Cultural Safety for the Indigenous People in Australia

CULTURAL SAFETY
Part A
According to the Oxfam Australia (2018) they are working together with the ACCHS
to help the indigenous Australians in self-determination. This involves helping them make
decisions on programs and policies that directly affect them, their health. They (the ACCHS)
also support them (the ATSI) in the decision making process. Self-determination help them
be heard by politician and the community. Together with other organizations, the UCCHS
formed the close the gap initiative help solve health inequality in Australia (Mazel, 2016).
Together with the Oxfam, in 2016, they launched the Redferm Statement that tackled
complex program and policy issues affecting the indigenous community (Oxfam Australia,
2018).
The disparity in the health sector between the aboriginals and the non-indigenous
people is the core business for the ACCHS. They came up with the closing the gap
framework, committed to resolve this disparity and promote social, economic and emotional
wellbeing of the ATSI community. With their goal to make a healthier community, they have
incorporated the health care facilities with their main goal being of early realization and
intervention, prevention and coordination of care (Panaretto, Wenitong, Button and Ring,
2014). Planning and evaluation of health care are the core components of the model of
comprehensive and quality primary health care. This model was innitiated by the government
and researchers to promote clinical services, community involvement in health care, cultural
safety and health promotions among the ATSI community. These models provide the
evidence, time and resources required to manage and solve the complex problems that occur
during the health care practice. The patient centred medical home model is thought to be the
best for application in general health care practice but has no difference to the ACCHSs
model (Department of Health and Ageing, 2009).

CULTURAL SAFETY
The Victorian Mental Health Network (VAMHN), developed in 1987, is a program
made to handle mental health issues for the Aboriginals. This program has developed policies
and services such as the society consultation unit and educational seminars based on health
matter and Aboriginals culture. This program was made to address the low life expectancy
and health inequality faced by the indigenous community. The VAMHN and many more
programs for the ATSI community are run by the indigenous people (Harfield, Davy, Kite,
McArthur, Munn, Brown, & Brown, 2015). This program has received support locally and all
over Australia from the indigenous community. This has made them achieve more success in
their service delivery.
According to the Australian College of Nursing (2017), much has been done in
closing the gap in the health services delivery between the ATSI community and non-
indigenous Australian but still more has to be done. Li (2017) claims that this health
inequality still exists and health care officers have the core role to offer an effective and a
long-lasting solution to this disparity in the health facilities. The nurses are positioned to
initiate and maintain contact with the ATSIs in the health care facilities and also at the
community level to address socially based health care. Therefore nurses are important in
providing both rural and urban health care services to the Aboriginal community (Australian
College of Nursing, 2017).
Part B
The NSQHS standards were put down by the government, territories and states in
collaboration with health professionals, carers and patients, with the primary goal being to
improve and promote the quality of health services and also protect the public, especially the
Aboriginals, from any hospital based harm (Australian Commission of Safety and Quality in
Health Care, 2018). In 2017, the NSQHS standards second edition was released and it