Developing Cultural Safety in Healthcare: An Action Plan for Nurses

This report comprehensively examines cultural safety in healthcare, focusing on the development of a culturally competent action plan for nurses. It begins with a definition of cultural safety, emphasizing the creation of a safe environment for patients and healthcare providers. The report outlines the goals, objectives, and principles of cultural safety, highlighting the importance of shared responsibility, patient-centered approaches, and accountability. It identifies organizational and individual barriers to cultural safety, such as time constraints and inadequate skills, and proposes strategies to overcome these challenges, including enhancing cultural awareness, knowledge, and expertise. The report details resources and training required for cultural safety, emphasizing the role of communication and training to maintain positive cultural safety practices. It provides a detailed action plan, including strategies to overcome barriers and challenges, and discusses the importance of monitoring and evaluating the plan's implementation to ensure its effectiveness in improving patient care and fostering a supportive healthcare environment.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
The cultural safety for nurses in health care....................................................................................3
The goal and objective of cultural safety.........................................................................................3
The principles of cultural safety in health care............................................................................3
The barriers and facilitators of cultural safety for nurse..................................................................4
2.1. Organizational Factors..........................................................................................................4
2.2. Individual Factors.................................................................................................................4
Developing individual cultural safety in nursing and overcoming the barriers...............................4
Resources or additional training required for cultural safety..........................................................5
How the plan will be implemented to maintain positive cultural safety?........................................6
Action plans.....................................................................................................................................6
The need for action plan:.............................................................................................................6
Identified strategies to overcome any barriers/challenges...............................................................7
The three steps/ strategies to overcome the barriers and challenges............................................7
Monitoring the plan implementation...............................................................................................8
Action plan evaluation.....................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9

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References........................................................................................................................................9
Introduction
The goal of this assignment is to study cultural safety to help the nurse’s in health care
centres to develop a plan to become culturally competent. The assignment will give us brief
information about the particular definition regarding the cultural safety, their goals and
objectives as well, the identified barriers that inhibit the provision of cultural safety and the
communists to prepare an action plan to become a cultural component.
The cultural safety for nurses in health care
In the medical and health sector, in this nursing profession the cultural safety is
concerned to create a healthy environment that is socially, spiritually, physically and emotionally
safety for them. A cultural safety also defines to in position where no assault challenge is taken
in place and is all about shared respect, experiences, and knowledge of a workplace that aims to
learn together with truly listening and dignity of an individual or patients (Scharrer and Coleman,
2019).
The cultural safety of nurses is a concept of care that has a relationship between the
nurses and the people who they do care. The patients who needed nursing and their care mostly
are typically deceived on their cultural safety that merges with the medical and health care unit
authorities.
The goal and objective of cultural safety

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The cultural safety in the nursing practices is used to focuses on the attitude, skills, and
knowledge to work towards to bring positive and cultural component factors for the patients and
to exercise in respect and compassion (West, Mills, Rowland & Creedy, 2018). The goal of
cultural safety is to continue the education module to help the nurses so that they can develop an
individual’s plan to become culturally component.
The principles of cultural safety in health care
• Shared responsibility with each other
• Patients centred approach
• Accountability and transparency
• Ongoing innovation and improvement
• Equity
The barriers and facilitators of cultural safety for nurse
According to the research, the studies have investigated that there are many possible
barriers that are linked with the nurse's works their research skills and values. The barriers to
cultural safety have been categorized into various different elements and organizational elements
(Synnot et al., 2018).
2.1. Organizational Factors
In case of organizational or managerial factors or elements, the time constraints are one
of the serious barriers in utilizing cultural ethics. The time to read, implement research, evaluate
and disseminate cultural ethics is cited as one of the major barriers. However, the inadequate

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facilities, Practice setting and lack of support from hospital operations are also cited as a major
barrier (Gallagher, Mckinlay, Pullon & McHugh, 2019).
2.2. Individual Factors
The individual factors are significantly related to the individual characteristics that many
particularly influence their values and beliefs in cultural safety. The inadequate skills lack
accessing and research the quality of work and inadequate appraisals of skills, lack of confidence
to bring a change are reported as one of the major barriers.
Developing individual cultural safety in nursing and overcoming the barriers
• Cultural awareness:
The cultural awareness requires in-depth exploration and self-examination which can be
identified by a nurse through their professional and cultural background. The plan can be within
sighting into the organization's healthcare values and beliefs. Cultural awareness is one of the
major tools that can be used in assessing the level of cultural awareness (Shepherd et al., 2019).
• Cultural knowledge:
Cultural knowledge is one of the major plans that can be sought by gaining information
regarding different ethnic and cultural groups. The component can be expanded by accessing the
information through the seminars, workshop, internet resources and textbooks.
• Cultural expertise:
The cultural expertise requires an capability to gather all the cultural statistics or data
regarding the problems of the patient that a nurse can accurately perform in a cultural way.
Resources or additional training required for cultural safety

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Being a nurse in the health care industry, the main focused should be to provide high
patient care with the best ability. The continued practice of cultural safety has become one of the
important factors than it was ever before. Cultural safety can be defined to deliver high health
care services so that one can meet the cultural and social needs of the patient (Ivers et al., 2019).
The cultural safety in the nursing practices is relieved to the cornerstone that aims to
provide superior care for the patients. Being a nurse, it relents to have cultural safety as they
have to care for their patients even in the most vulnerable state (Goldman & Trimmer, 2019).
It is also important for the nurses to understand the cultural safety to give comfort to their
patients and to provide ultimate care at the highest level.
How the plan will be implemented to maintain positive cultural safety?
• Communication:
The great way to implement a positive cultural safety is by communication effective with
the team to give the best further practices on patients. The safety policies can also be
implemented by communication with patients’ expectations, safe practices to give out the best
safety procedures further.
• Training:
Training nurses demonstrate a commitment to give the best safety. Trained employees
will embrace the safety cultures that can be readily responded to be aware of the effects and
hazards that can have on maintaining cultural safety in the hospitals. The training session for
nurses can also include reinforcing learning (Kryzanowsk et al., 2019).
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• Developing a positive reporting process
The nurses should be a reward to report concerns on safety and harass so that it could be
easier for them to maintain and build a positive atmosphere in the hospital by keeping a positive
reporting in the process.
Action plans
The need for action plan:
• The formal training for nurses can help them to gain an effective understanding of the
cultural concepts of safety and practices.
• The wide patient safety policies can also give delineate clear plan on accountability
and to perform effective procedures for the patient's safety.
• The regular reviewing of safety policies to ensure the adequacy of anticipated and
current circumstances.
• Encouraging the nurses and other workforces to have a questioning attitude on
cultural safety issues.
Identified strategies to overcome any barriers/challenges
In the health care industry and in case of the nursing profession the safety procedures and
action plan requires a lot of personal skills and cognitive skills both. With the help of these two
features they can enhance the internal communications and relations with their patients and
respect co-workers. Developing cultural safety and strategies to have many barriers and
challenges which is mentioned earlier in the above section. The step to overcoming such barriers
requires a personal reflection of practices which can recognize the inherent values that a nurse
can own to resolve the conflicts and challenges (Olukotun et al., 2018).

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The three steps/ strategies to overcome the barriers and challenges
To overcome these challenges, it is essential to develop a safe cultural practice that
demands the huge capability of adjustments according to their patients’ needs. To increasing the
safety procedure, they need to follows three steps as follows:
Step 1: Engaging the cultural consciousness or awareness that constructs the nurses to
create their recognition to set a unique cultural group. By engaging with the minority cultural
groups and to build collaborative control programs can be one of the imperative processes to
overcome the challenges.
Step 2: The cultural appraisal programs in the hospitals for nurses can help in identifying
the cultural domains that can further help them to give a plan of personal care to their patients
(Mkandawire et al., 2019).
Step 3: Developing a cultural safety skill with appropriate attitude, behaviour and
communication strategies so that the gap if inequities can be reduced between the co-workers to
give a high outcome in the patients care.
Monitoring the plan implementation
The assignment has explored on merely a small set of challenges of an institution that can
give a positive and effective safety culture based on only one profession group of health care
industry the nurses. The monitoring of the plan should be considered and compared through the
studies conducted in the different form of contexts.
In addition, other forms of challenges can be monitored to recognize the organizational
and cultural contexts of health care system such as the physicians so that a multidisciplinary
perspective can be formed out (Conn et al., 2019).

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Thus, the other forms of quantitative and qualitative studies can also be monitored and
can be auctioned to adopt the strategies to process the hospital management in safety sets by
implementing the organizational and diverse cultural contexts. The implementation of plans can
also give a comprehensive pave to create and grow a safety culture for the nurses and for the
patients that can lead to a high quality of care in a cultural context.
Action plan evaluation
The health care system puts numerous efforts to stand a long way towards to bring a
positive and effective safety culture for the nurses. In the assignment, the several challenges and
barriers have been showed out that affects the cultural safety of nurses in health care.
The cultural safety of nurses for their patients and hospital organizations is an
international phenomenon that has detected a set of challenges in the study. However, the
adopted action plans and strategies to integrate the safety culture in the field give consistent
reliability to underline the conditions with given a unique set of these safety procedures
(Mackean, Fisher, Friel & Baum, 2019).
These action plans will help to implement positive and effective impact among the nurses
and also creates huge impact on the staff, doctors, physicians, and managerial authorities also in
the organization.
Conclusion
With the help of the research and study for the assignment, the nurses can employ many
techniques to make their action plans of cultural safety and to grow their level of competency.
They can ask questions to learn about the different cultures in their organization. With clear and

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description communication they can communicate to give positive practices to the patient. For
professional cultural safety, the nurses should be aware of the situations which may lead to a lack
of sensitivity and work. In the end, for a positive cultural outcome, the nurses can seek to peers
and colleagues to learn more about interacting with the patient.
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