Cultural Safety Position Statement

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Cultural Safety Position Statement
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Introduction.
In Australia, Aboriginal and the Torres Strait Islander are recognized as the country's first
nation people by the Council of Deans of Nursing and Midwifery. The council highly supports
social safety development and implementation in practice, research activities for the midwives
and in education programs. In the CDU Aged care centre, cultural safety offers a critical
framework in examining the internal dimension of power among the patients and the health
professionals. To enhance cultural competence in the CDU Aged care centre, the health
professions effectively engage with people from different cultures respectfully to ensure
improvement and equality in health provision. The organization has lifestyle programs and gives
more attention to health services to strengthen the well-being and health of people from different
cultures, thus improving the quality of their lives. CDU Aged care centre effectively provides
health communication and literacy to people from different cultures as a strategy to ensure
culturally safe healthcare is delivered effectively to people from all religions. CDU Aged Care
centre always provide effective health communication and literacy as the best strategy to ensure
effective delivery of culturally safe healthcare. The primary reason for designing social safety is
to draw attention to the imbalances among the Maori and the healthcare culture dominant that
disregards the illness and the health belief systems in Australia.
Australia has undertaken critical steps to move cultural safety practice and programming.
It is partnering with the physician association of Australia, and the Aboriginal Nurses association
to generate frameworks for nursing and medical curricula to teach on how to build competence
in cultural safety. Health Australia highly supports this through a five years Aboriginal Health
Human Resources Initiative that funds them to ensure an increase in the number of
postsecondary institutions that offer social safety curricula. CDU Aged care centre puts more

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emphasis on health literacy since it's essential in the organization in improving quality, reducing
the disparities, and cost reduction. Cultural safety includes cultural competence, sensitivity,
knowledge, respect, and awareness. It's also crucial for successful access to care and services
use, self-care of chronic conditions. CDU Aged care centre ensures health literacy since it
requires individuals to play a significant role in management and decision making. The
organization plays a vital role in ensuring a healthy body among people from all cultures; it also
calls for a better and healthy mind as well as a healthy community. These are possible through
embedding the concept of cultural safety in all the health education and facilities to ensure that
the nurses get the required knowledge to facilitate social security. The organization advocates for
equal and fair access to health services by all and its working to provide quality services to
people of all cultures in Australia.
Importance of the Statement in Providing Culturally Safe Healthcare Environment.
The implementation of the cultural safety principles helps in redressing indigenous
equality in health in Australia. It aims at ensuring that CDU Aged care centre and its employees
understand the broad contours of the colonial violence history and the depression leading to
inequalities in health through the reduction of alienation in healthcare services offered by CDU
Aged care centre (Downing, 2011). These will help in the suspension of their ethnocentric views
to favour the worldviews and cultural practices and focus on the needs and preferences of their
clients. Recognizing the difference in the power inherent in service provider and client
interaction is an essential component of cultural safety; thus, it has been compulsorily integrated
into the Australian nursing curricula to improve on the health outcomes of the patients in the
country (Tremblay2015).