Nursing and Cultural Safety

This document discusses the importance of cultural safety in nursing and provides insights into developing a cultural safety action plan. It explores the barriers, goals, and objectives of the plan and offers strategies to overcome obstacles. The document also highlights the resources needed for implementation and provides an evaluation process to assess the effectiveness of the plan.

Running head: NURSING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
NURSING AND CULTURAL SAFETY
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author note

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Part A: Action Plan
Goals Objectives Resources
Anticipated barriers Evaluation
methods
Developing
organizationa
l culture
 To Create an
Organization
al Culture
based on
Safety
 To develop
interactive
abilities for
enhancing
collaborative
functioning
of the
processes
while
adhering to
the NSQHS
standards
The resources
that will be
considered
during the
process are
Audio visual
labs,
discussion
papers for
attending
seminars,
interactive
sessions and
communicatio
n based
discussion
papers
 Introvert approach
towards
communication
 Maximized power
distance gap
between the
employees and the
managers (Green,
Wyllie & Jackson,
2014)
 Lack of clarity in
the message that is
being shared
 Lack of effective
tools for
understanding the
cultural safety
needs of the clients
(NSQHS
Standards., 2019)
The
development
in the
organizationa
l culture will
be portrayed
through a
better
collaboration
between the
other
members of
the team and
the
individuals
with the aim
of adhering
to the cultural
safety needs
of the
communities.

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Knowledge of
processes and
ethics
 To strengthen
the staff
capacity by
extensive
training
programs
(NSQHS
Standards.,
2019)
Provisions for
dummy
laboratories,
documents on
the nursing
ethics,
practical study
materials on
the existing
processes
 Mismanagement of
the dummy
laboratories
 Dummy labs
provide a
summative view of
the responsibilities
and not a
comprehensive
view of the critical
situations
 Lack change
readiness among
the employees
might affect the
capabilities of the
organization while
providing specific
training based on
the community
needs of cultural
safety (Van Hoof
et al., 2016)
The
enhancement
in the
professional
skills and
better
understandin
g of the
ethical issues
that might be
faced by an
individual
while
operating on
the health
care related
needs of the
patient

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 Misunderstanding
of the ethical
considerations
might affect the
capabilities of the
practitioner while
operating in
accordance to the
needs of the patient
Developing
empathy
 To develop
dignity for
the
traditional
knowledge
and healing
approaches
related to
intensive care
Evaluation of
learning
materials on
empathy and
the manner in
which it might
be nurtured
 Misunderstanding
the health care
related needs of the
clients
 Developing biased
opinion on the
healthcare
condition of the
clients
 Lack of suitable
understanding of
the situation might
create a chaotic
outcome of the
Development
in the nursing
procedure
through the
suitable
identification
of the
healthcare
related needs
of the
patients

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activities (Foster et
al., 2015)
Building
adaptability
 To work in
different
critical
situations
 To develop
the expertise
in the nursing
activities
 Developing
relation
based care
among the
communities
Working in
different
critical
situations,
briefing in the
audio- visual
labs , dummy
libraries, study
materials
 Inexperience might
affect the
capabilities of a
practitioner while
understanding the
complicated nature
of the emergency
situation
(Papathanasiou et
al., 2014)
 Lack of suitable
communication of
the practitioner
with the team
members might
affect the
capabilities of the
same in adapting
the operations
while operating in
different critical
Adaptability
of the
practitioner
will be
reflected
through the
smooth
functioning
of the
operations in
different
critical
situations

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situations
Community
involvement
in the nursing
practices
 To develop
and improve
client and
community
experience
(NSQHS
Standards.,
2019)
 To encourage
the proactive
involvement
of the
community
in the nursing
practices that
are
undertaken
by the
institutions
Utilization of
Big Data
analytics and
cloud
management
for gathering
updated data
on the
different
innovative
practices that
are undertaken
in the nursing
practices
 Relevance of the
data might affect
the capabilities of
an individual
practitioner in
supporting the
continuous
learning needs of
the same
 Lack of Unbiased
and authentic data
sources might
affect the
capabilities of a
practitioner in
developing insights
on the different
modifications that
might be
undertaken by the
same (Hoeve,
Jansen &
The
continuous
learning
attribute will
be reflected
through the
continuous
improvement
in the process
design that is
being
undertaken
by the
practitioner
while
adhering to
the growing
healthcare
needs of the
clients and
communities.

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Roodbol, 2014)
Part B: Rationale
Requirement of the plan
The objective of this plan is resembled with the Cultural safety strategies. It is important
to understand the efficacy of Cultural safety in professional world. According to the empirical
researches, the role of the personality development is highly required in order to deal with the
upcoming challenges (Cho et al., 2017). Moreover, one of the primary aspect of Cultural safety
is to upgrade the individual ability so that it will cater more efficiency in professional practices.
Therefore, the personal plan is based on a number of goals and objectives. Those objectives
provides a guidance to the proper build of individual skills. It needs an outline so that the
objectives and goals are clearly identified. In this regard, this research is going to make a
Cultural safety Action Plan that supplemented a clear perception of the objectives and goals and
the required resources and in-depth analysis that will formulate an effective Cultural safety
practice.
Implementation of the plan
The plan is going to evaluate different attributes and requirements for a Cultural safety.
In this regard, the plan at first required a clear perception regarding the goals of the development
plan. In this regard, five goals has been illustrated for this Cultural safety Action Plan . Each of
those goals are clearly distinctive but have a correlation with one another. The purpose of this
goals is to illuminate the individual with the required development areas where he or she will

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vest entire efforts (Heckemann, Schols & Halfens, 2015). After that, the objectives will be
taken into consideration. The role of the objectives is to highlight the outline of the entire
development plan and the way the goals will be addressed. It can be opined that the objectives
are directly linked with the goals and based on the specific goals proper objectives will be
derived. This development requires a number of resources or support materials that are highly
important for making the development plan a success. In other words, it can be stated that the
purpose of the resources in a development plan is to provide impetus to the objectives. As a
matter of fact, it is pertinent to identify the risk factors that can create obstacles to the growth of
an individual. It is identified as a pro-active approach of the professional to create a contingency
plan in order to face the expected challenges and mitigate it (Bohman & Borglin, 2014).
Finally, an evaluation process will be implemented in order to get clear picture regarding the
efficacy and relevancy of the previous steps. In this regard, a development plan can be set for
Cultural safety .
Resources
Mostly, the basic requirements are needed in order to shape the plan effectively. Both the
psychological and the practical tasks are required in order to get a clear perception regarding the
role of the effective Cultural safety Action planning. The purpose of the psychological tasks is
clearly intertwined with the practice of developing the psychological skills and ability to deal
with crisis situation. In this context, it can be stated that different types of psychological tools
can be used in order to get a clear perception of the individual mind. Besides this, the practical
tasks will be essential to develop the skills and adaptability properly (Schwind et al., 2014). The
resources like the audio visual laboratory, the dummy labs, the previous research discussions and
the lectures from the respective experts are the major source of resources that might be utilized in

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the Cultural safety process for enhancing the prospects of development while adhering to the
diverse health related needs of the patients. The resources will assist in developing a positive
professional experience e of an individual practitioner. Therefore, the utilization of a diverse
range of resources will assist in maintaining the efficiency of the development process.
Strategies to overcome barriers
The identified strategies will assist in identifying the different loopholes in the processes.
Lucid understanding of the flaws in the process will be assisting the practitioners in developing
the operations while adhering to the health are related requirements of the patients. It might be
noted that the development of the communicability in an individual practitioner will not only
improve the activities through empathy but also support the same in developing group bound
activities through collaboration. Collaborative functioning of a practitioner will assist the same
in enhancing the adaptability of the same in different critical situations. The different changes
that might be considered by the practitioner is dependent on the assessment of the needs of the
patients (Cho et al., 2017). Therefore, in this relation, the diverse range of activities that might
be undertaken by the practitioner will be enhanced through the development ion the
communication related skills of the same. The development of the communication related skills
of the practitioner will assist the same in facilitating continuous innovation in the processes. On
the other hand, the practitioner might also take steps to upgrade the knowledge of the existing
and emerging processes through continuous learning. It will assist the same in maintaining the
proficiency of the operations in accordance to the healthcare related needs of the patients.
Evaluation process

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Evaluation of the processes will be undertaken through different modifications in the
operations through the implementation of the development plan. The development plan will be
evaluated on the basis of the development of expertise of the practitioner and the manner in
which the adaptability of the same is enhanced. On the other hand, the evaluation of the
development process will be chiefly based on the assessment of the manner in which the process
might assist the practitioner in developing the activities in accordance to the healthcare related
needs of the patients (Papathanasiou, Tsaras & Sarafis, 2014). The enhancement of the
activities will assist in evaluating the operations in accordance to the job criteria.

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