Cultural Safety in Multicultural Healthcare Environments

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Cultural Safety 2
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Behaviours
Order
Good communication
Punctual
Exercise
Beliefs
Spiritual
Moral
Social
Political
Values
Freedom
Family
Learning
Competitiveness

Cultural Safety 3
Introduction
My personal beliefs, values and behaviours affect clinical practice and the
quality of patient care. Similarly, pateints have values, beliefs and
behaviours which are likely to differ from mine. It is therefore important
that I understand that cultural differences can detract me from being a
culturally safe professional in a multicultural health care workplace
(Cherry & Jacob, 2016).
Values
Freedom
Freedom is a value that affects my nursing practice. Freedom involves
ones right to freely express their will without fear or favour. My value of
freedom contributes to a culturally safe environment because I allow
every client to speak for herself or himself. This is because I will not make
significant changes without involving the patients in decision making
process.
Family
Family involves my loved ones. Putting my family foremost is an issue that
I have always tried to maintain. Striking balance between family and work
remains an ongoing challenge for me. Life balance sustains engagement
with nursing practice and fosters one’s ability to provide quality
healthcare services (Schluter, Turner, Huntington, Bain, & McClure, 2011).
My cultural value of a family will make me a more culturally safe expert in
a multicultural healthcare environment because I will involve the family
members of the patient in decision making and updating them on the key
progress of their patient.
Learning
I believe that learning is very important because it creates awareness and
improves the knowledge and skills necessary to address any diversity in
cultural background. It is through learning that communication skills are