Cultural Safety Position Statement

This document discusses the Cultural Safety Position Statement by the Council of Deans of nursing and midwifery. It highlights the importance of cultural safety in healthcare and the significance of effective communication and health literacy in providing a culturally safe environment. It also explores the relationship between health literacy and effective communication, as well as external influences and barriers in implementing cultural safety practices.

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PART ONE
Council of Deans of nursing and midwifery cultural safety position statement
CDNM is an organization that presents leaders, deans, and heads of nursing education
and midwifery. The organization provides education standards and health policy of nurses and
midwifery. It acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander as the first people. Also, it
supports cultural safety development and aids in its implementation through educational
programs and practices. In addition, the organization recognizes that social wellbeing emerges
from various historical, financial, political social and intellectual positions in Australia. Cultural
safety gives a basic system to look at the intrinsic element of intensity between wellbeing experts
and beneficiaries of consideration. Cultural safety, in addition, has aided communities suffering
from various health conditions to heal (Brascoupé and Waters, 2009). The beneficiary's abstract
evaluation of care is related to cultural strengthening and better health results. A culturally
protected human services workforce is needed to give compelling consideration to Indigenous
customers.
Key positions
 Culturally protected education and working environment situations
 Drawing in a model of arranged association to educate Indigenous and non-
Indigenous partner commitment in urban, country and remote settings.
 Expanding support for Aboriginal and Torres Islander individuals in the wellbeing
workforce through mannerly and safe enlistment and maintenance methodologies

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 Understanding, cultural, social, political, financial logical and historical
determinants affecting the strength of Indigenous people groups, i.e., 'For what
reason are things the way they are?'
 Cultural security as a mutual undertaking between all medicinal services experts
Significance of effective communication and health literacy in the provision of a culturally
safe environment
Compelling communication among patients and health personnel is a basic component of
quality human services. Getting to be mindful of patients' demeanors, beliefs, inclinations, and
practices that may impact patient consideration can enable health personnel to advance quality
health care. Communication is the main procedure between the patient and the physician it
enhances the ability of physicians to work and collaborate with other disciplines (Suter et al.,
2009). Patients show a reduced rate of adherence to clinicians whose communication is poor and
increased adherence to clinicians with rich communication skills (Zolnierek and Dimatteo,
2009). Conspicuously, communication enhances a feeling of satisfaction to the patient and
contributes to the patient's safety.
Health literacy, in general, is the ability to write, read, speak an understandable language,
ability to solve problems and thinking critically. Health literacy expects individuals to make
good decisions and maintain proper management role. For a physician to make a healthy
diagnostic decision after a conversation with the patient he or she should be in a position to
comprehend patient's information appropriately by showing the ability to conjoint patients
information, historical and cultural health background. Health literacy upholds proper
interventions during treatment, enhances development in health facilities and promotes health
settings (Sørensen et al., 2012). In addition, health literacy is applied when confirming whether

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the patient has acquired an understanding of their current health conditions and treatment.
Examples of communication methods include techniques such teach back and teach to goal
methods. Use of these techniques helps the physician to identify the patient's misinterpretation
and errors and early correction is made. Health literacy helps patients process and understand
their health conditions improving patients’ safety.
PART TWO
1. Why having such a statement is important in providing culturally safe health
care environment
Medical caretakers and midwives stand in need of education specifically undergraduate
and postgraduate level, also training to give culturally sheltered and powerful consideration in all
unique circumstances. Subsequently, consideration needs to move to how the wellbeing
workforce is arranged both previously and the following enlistment. Social culture, perceives the
uniqueness of the person, recognizing that every individual conveys their own cultural character.
This consolidates acknowledgment of the scope of cultural impacts but not constrained to
ethnicity, sex, age, sexual direction, and way of life decisions, convictions, and qualities.
Cultural wellbeing has taken into account an increasingly intelligent, basic comprehension of the
activities of medicinal services experts. The reconciliation of cultural security in health
proceedings accommodates the formal acknowledgment of intensity relations inside health
services collaborations. By embracing social wellbeing it progresses toward becoming possible
as well as unavoidable that an investigation of the suppositions fundamental practice, brought by
the two people and the calling will happen. This intelligent model is viable at the individual,
institutional and expert dimensions, and empowers recognizable proof of the suppositions and

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previously established inclinations that structure practice. Conclusively, cultural safety features
the requirement for acknowledgment instead of absorption of distinction and gives an intelligent
model that permits for the identification of the power differences that happen inside health care
(Richardson and Williams, 2007).
2. The importance of effective communication in providing culturally safe health
care environment.
Clear effective communication provides a safe health care environment by enhancing the
healthy relationship between patients and health care provider resulting in the improvement of
quality of health care. In addition, Communication enhances quality health care and safe health
environment (Arnold and Boggs, 2019). The ability of the health provider to comprehend the
patient's experiences and understand how the client perceives his or her current condition
improves a safe health care environment. Effective communication is important between
teammates and facility management and also when operating with patients and their family
members.
Health care facilities can be made safer by sharing of information between teammates and the
management. For example, teammates can exchange patient's information during shift
exchanges. The official way of exchanging information can be lengthy and the physicians may
take long before being in contact with the patient. Advanced methods of communicating more
quickly, effectively and reliably have been developed. The new method of exchanging patient’s
information is done at the patient’s bedside rather than in the nurses’ station, this way the patient
is never alone enhancing his or her safety.

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Health personnel working with patients and family members understand that they are relating to
people facing serious challenges. Trust is built among health personnel and the client when the
personnel show love, empathy, and understanding to the patient. These actions assist in reducing
miscommunications and help in identifying the needs and conditions of the patient. health
personnel, therefore, should be trained on effective communication (Mackert and Lopez, 2011).
Effective communications in health care facilities save lives improves working conditions and
improve job quality and success.
3. Relationship between health literacy and effective communication.
Health literacy and effective communication between health care personnel and patients
are the most important principles in improving safe health care. Health literacy interlink with
communication in a way that communication is a principle of health literacy, health literacy also
can be developed using communication. For example in day to day life technology more so the
internet is majorly used in delivering information to the intended people. However,
communication should not be based only on technology; it possibly means delivering the right
message to the right people. There stand specific important areas in communication that share a
common goal in the development of health literacy, for example, education. Education is very
significant in health settings. Education is known to provide informative knowledge and
developments that are more advanced and are beyond health and institution setting. Health
literacy is a goal aimed at enhancing culturally safe health care environment. Education enhances
health literacy in hospitals by educating about the benefits of good hygiene and nutrition, sex
reproductive behaviors.

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4. External influences (historical and contemporary factors like media) that may
contribute to drawing away from cultural safe practices in the health care
environment.
Some external influences diminish cultural practices in the health environment. Historical
and contemporary factors like the media draw away safe health care practices. News and
policy in the media have changed the population lifestyle and healthcare practices.
Historically, the media had been not aware of the dangers and risks of smoking.
However, no matter how much they increase the attention of smoking habits and no
matter how many times they mention and discuss the dangers of smoking, smoking habits
have not changed since many people are already used to smoking and it is difficult for
them to stop since they are already addicted. Social media, in addition, have affected the
promotion of health and behavioral change of people (Korda & Itani, 2013). Other
external factors include; patients’ socio-demographic factors and the health care system.
Patients socio-demographic factors, contribute to drawing away from safe health
practices. They involve the patient's cooperation with the physician. Health care
providers should appreciate the patient's demographic characteristics to provide high-
quality health care.
5. How might the position statement contribute to the health outcome of the
organizational target clients?
Medical caretakers' working conditions are inseparably connected to the nature of
consideration that is given to patients and patients ‘safety. These equivalent working conditions
are related to wellbeing and security results for medical caretakers and other social insurance

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suppliers. The healthy environment contributes to a positive outcome of the patient's health
(Kirwan, Matthews and Scott 2013). Human care personnel ability to comprehend their patients'
social insurance convictions, qualities, and inclinations is a significant element of patient-
focused consideration. Understanding patient’s beliefs enhance health outcomes since a patient
participates fully during the consultation and enhancing the understanding power of the clinician
on the health of the patient (Street and Haidet, 2011). Patient’s beliefs about health predict
health conducts such as treatment adherence, utilization of health administrations, and way of life
decisions.
6. Barriers in the implementation of the position statement that might exist within
the organization.
Major barriers include communication difficulties and insufficient quality standards.
Implementation of effective communication is encountered by barriers that pull back the strategy
from being a success. They include nurse's readiness to work, working environment and the
physician's characteristics. Nurse's readiness to work is attributed by certain themes, for example,
lack of enough knowledge in the field and poor time management. Poor working environment
includes heavy workload which is the main barrier of communication (Anoosheh, Zarkhah,
Faghihzadeh & Vaismoradi, 2009). Also, Stuff shortage in the facility results in ineffective
communication. For example, some of the health personnel get sick but they are not listened to.
They end up continuing with their daily routine since even after they are on leave one will
replace them. They decide not to communicate their current problems since no action will be
taken. Some physician’s attributes prevent proper implementation of effective communication.
For example, physician’s handwriting may not be understood by patients, nurses or another
physician and errors are bound to be made when trying to fulfill medical orders.

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Quality principles are inadequate in assuring socially safe consideration for Indigenous
clients. The difference between the indigenous and non- indigenous should be reduced in order
to improve the life expectancy in Australia (Rigby et al., 2011). Health care is seen as belittling
and may be regarded as racist or culturally dangerous and might essentially lessen treatment
constancy or result in complete treatment, notwithstanding when this might be perilous. Apex
Indigenous sound bodies fight to boost the possibility of socially safe healthy thought may
impressively add to Indigenous wellbeing improvement. It seeks after that an undeniably express
embedding of social wellbeing inside obligatory measures for secured, quality-ensured clinical
thought may invigorate the starting at now lacking closing the Gap instruments related to human
administrations movement (Laverty, McDermott and Calma, 2017).
6. How to overcome the barriers.
Quality standards will be improved by the reduction of racism. Racism will be reduced by the
improvement of education between undergraduate students and clinicians. This will improve
cultural safety in health care and also reduce disputes between indigenous and non- indigenous
Australians. Interactions between the health care provider and the patient should be improved as
to enhance patients outcome attributing to the change of the organizational setting (Laverty,
McDermott and Calma, 2017). Nurses are encouraged to improve their health literacy as well as
their ability to speak in English. Newly hired personnel are expected to have appropriate
preceptors. They are also advised to learn each other quickly. In addition, an increase of stuff in
the hospital can reduce labor force deficiency. Physicians are recommended to understand roles
played by nurses and their complications. A good, collaborative and communication rich
relationship should be maintained between consultants and nurses.

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Conclusively, it is crystal that cultural safety gives a basic structure to analyzing the
inalienable element of intensity between wellbeing experts and beneficiaries of consideration. In
addition, effective communication has resulted in safe health care and hence an improvement of
health outcomes. Further, the relationship between health literacy and communication should be
maintained as this combination has more benefits that one can offer independently. Clearly,
effective communication is the most important component above doctors and patients.

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