Position Statement on Cultural Safety

Running head: POSITION STATEMENT ON CULTURAL SAFETY
POSITION STATEMENT ON CULTURAL SAFETY
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Japara Aged Care Centre – Cultural Safety Position statement
PART 1:
Background of the organization:
Japara is a renowned aged care operator in the nation of Australia that runs across 44
homes in the nation. We provide round the clock residential care for people who are no longer
having the ability to live independent lives. We harbor one of the most experienced cohorts of
healthcare professionals to meet the needs of the aged citizens in the nation. Trained nurses as
well as specialist healthcare professionals try their utmost in providing high quality
accommodation. This care services are complemented by innovative and personalized care plan,
nutrition and lifestyle options. Japara undertakes a unique approach towards aged care and sets
up their main focus in exhibiting respect towards individuals. The organization inspires their
professionals in developing smarter as well as better designed homes. The organization had
appointed huge number of healthcare professionals ensuring that one-to-one time can be devoted
to each of the patients and to create personalized care plans for the individuals. We treat each of
the aged patients as a part of one large family and also place their best interests at the heart of
everything that is done for the patients. It has now become one of the most admired and loved
aged care providers in the nation.
One of the most important foundations of our aged cared facility is the culturally safe
environment. Japara upholds the values of social justice, integrity, inclusiveness as well as
excellence as the principle components of these values in practice. The healthcare professionals
here have a shared understanding of the cultural respect and provide culturally safe healthcare
services that align with the cultural tradition and customs of each of the patients successfully and

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respect their ethnicity, race and religion successfully. The healthcare organization advocates for
the implementation of the health service standards, which require a culturally safe approach and
thereby continue in providing advice to healthcare service providers and other key stakeholders
in developing a culturally safe working environment for the different patients coming from
varied cultural backgrounds. Moreover, the organization plays a substantial role by advocating
for the cultural safety in the nursing education and training so as to develop cultural competency
and cultural sensitivity that is required to provide vest quality care that aligns with dignity of the
patients and makes them feel satisfied.
The position of the organization:
1. Japara affirms that all patients from varied cultural backgrounds have the right to live in a
safe, healthy as well as empowered lives that would have strong connections towards
their culture and safety
2. Japara is also of the opinion that patients with varied cultural backgrounds should be
likely to access towards healthcare thereby achieving better health outcomes by accessing
carious services that would be respectful and culturally safe
3. Japara confirms that education providers to the workforce of the organization undertakes
regular training sessions, workshops as well as discussion sessions to ensure that the
professional become skillful enough to develop high level of cultural competency in their
skills and thereby exhibit cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural sensitivity and
cultural respect to the patients in the organizations.
4. Japara implements an organization wide cultural safety policy as well as practical
Reconciliation Action Plan that exhibits the commitment of the organization in
addressing the inequalities faced by ethnic minority groups and thereby to assist them

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through self-determination, removal of health disadvantages as well as elimination of the
racism.
The Aged Care: PART 2:
Rationale:
Why having such a statement is important for providing a culturally safe healthcare
environment?
Australia is a multicultural nation and harbors the comfortable living with different
migrants and refugees coming from more than 200 countries. Such people are seen to practice
over 115 religions and speak various languages accounting to for about 180 languages. The term
cultural safety can be referred to the braid understanding of the respect, empowerment, support,
identify and upholding of the human rights practiced. It is important for the nursing professionals
to ensure following of cultural safety framework while treating patients from varied backgrounds
for effective recognition of the power imbalances that are often found to be inherent in
relationships between recipients and healthcare professionals (Pauly et al., 2015). It is extremely
important for nursing professionals in healthcare centers to develop cultural awareness and
cultural sensitive to provide respect to cultural traditions and customs of the patients in the
organization. Richardson et al. (2017) are of the opinion that when patients from varied culture
feels that the professionals respect their beliefs, customs, values, language and traditions, they
are more likely to communicate honestly as well as freely with the healthcare professionals. This
can help in revealing much important information by the patients regarding their health and
personal life which can help in better development of care plan services meeting all their
healthcare needs. This would help in reduction of disparities in the healthcare a ling with