Cultural Safety and Practices: A Healthcare Position Statement Report

This report examines cultural safety practices within the healthcare sector, focusing on the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM) position statement. It explores the importance of health literacy and effective communication in providing a culturally safe environment for indigenous populations, emphasizing the need to address health inequalities and promote respectful healthcare practices. The report discusses the impact of external factors like environmental pollution and political influences on cultural safety, as well as barriers to implementing position statements, such as corruption and lack of policies. It highlights the crucial role of safe health practices in improving health outcomes, fostering unity, and ensuring that all individuals have equal access to healthcare. The report underscores the importance of cultural safety as a key component of quality healthcare for indigenous communities, advocating for a healthy environment and effective communication to achieve positive health outcomes.

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Introduction – Importance of the statement
Health inequalities, gaps, and disparities in the health sector for the indigenous people exist
globally. Medical and health allied professional organizations; Australian organizations that
represent indigenous groups and educational programs in Australia report needed changes in
curriculum and practices for better health of the first nations people (Aboriginal). Teamwork and
dedication to addressing the issue or fill the gap include the full contribution of first nation
people in the resolution-making process. The two planned decisions for the CATSINaM is to
strengthen the usefulness In commending in place of the nurses who come from indigenous
groups and offering support on employment and maintenance of these people in nursing and
midwifery. The nursing environment should also be favorable to the professionals to ensure the
climate does not affect the quality of work delivered. Nurses believe that everybody must protect
and preserve the environment. Cultural safety demonstrates the necessary levels of power
between nurses and recipients of care.
The organization's position statement demonstrates an understanding of health literacy
and effective communication concerning cultural safety.
The nursing organizational body CATSINaM operates on a national level, and its position
regarding cultural safety include the following; the body dictates that the Aboriginal and Islander
Strait Nurses have entitlement to have a protected and healthy life with empowered links to
customs and the state (Williamson and Harrison, 2010). This body also believe that the
aboriginal people of Australians have higher chances to access healthcare and attain health

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results by examining services that give respect to cultural practices and believe that lack of
cultural safety and organization racisms as the immediate obstructions to employment and
maintaining and keeping of the indigenous nursing students and graduate nurses and midwives in
the health sector.
Cultural safety in the health environment is considered the last stage on a variety and midwifery
concern that incorporates cultural awareness, cultural and knowledge, cultural respect, and
competence. Cultural competence and literacy discussed on a global level. Custom competence
is the capability of a group of critical talents, familiarity, outlook, and behaviors that nurse
professionals start to have a personality of their culture in delivering quality health care to varied
inhabitants. This familiarity with the nurse enables quality work delivery across different cultural
practices in the populations.
Position statements with clearly defined statements
CATSINaM asserts that the First nation Australians have the right to a healthy life; they also
believe that these people have more chances to access health care and accessing services that
respect their race. Besides, this organizational body from Australia maintains the treatment and
midwifery body of Australia’s code of ethics. Also, the organizational body advocates for
cultural safety in health at the individual and institutional levels. Positions maintain a culturally
safe environment and workforce.
The organization (CATSINaM) must have health care provisions as their primary business. The
health of this community or family of indigenous people should be ensured in all manners and
styles. They should be taught how to engage the group while making decisions regarding health

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care actively. The people should be made aware of their right to safe health practices and
cultures.culturally safety as a shared tool in health between nursing professionals.
Importance of a position statement in providing a culturally safe health care environment.
Such a statement is crucial because it protects the indigenous people of Australia as it prevents
discrimination against race or ethnicity on access to a culturally safe health care environment.
Besides, the statement protects indigenous groups against poor environments through protecting
against air pollution; it can easily predispose them to diseases. The survival of future generations
depends upon the maintenance of the natural environment and promoting ecological systems. It
also teaches the indigenous groups in Australia the need to minimize the human activities that
impact negatively on the environment. Lastly, the nursing theory, which integrates the concepts
of person, nursing health, and the environment in the concept of safe practices, conceptualizes
the interdependence and the interconnection of living things with the natural environment.
Importance of effective communication in the provision of a safe cultural environment.
Safe health practices can only is achieved through effective communication. Due to the many
people in Australia from different ethnic backgrounds, there is a possibility of increased
pollution. As a result of many human activities. Effectiveness of communication can be seen
through the ability to communicate with indigenous groups and inform them of the dangers of
environmental pollution. Effective communication ensures that individuals are protected from
limited access to health care, poor communication between the service providers in Australia,
and the patients make the patient leave unsatisfied. This limits the provision of protected custom
practices in the health care sectors (Hu,2015). Effective communication as there is limited

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education with the first nation individuals; hence, nurses who operate with them should have
excellent knowledge of how to communicate with them.
The following is a clear relationship between health literacy and effective communication.
Excellent communication between health workers and the first nation patients is crucial to
improving their health (Garneau and Pepin, 2015). Health literacy improves and enables
communication in health sectors. Nurse practitioners should always develop good relationships
with the indigenous group to ensure they understand and obtain health information. This can
only be achieved through effective communication. Many Australians lack the skills or
knowledge of health. Nurses should encourage patients to talk effectively to ensure the positive
health outcome of the patient. Nurses should also test the understanding of the indigenous groups
to ensure correct information is conveyed. A research on the indigenous groups in Australia
showed that the individual with limited health literacy have high chances to misinterpret health
information as compared to those who are knowledgeable with health information, and hence
these people are more likely to face hospitalization in the country. Health literacy goes hand in
hand with effective communication. Those with health literacy are likely to deliver health
information with ease. The CATISNaM should enhance efforts to overcome issues with limited
health literacy (Lingard, Cooke, and Blismas,2010). This will help to reduce health issues in
Australia.
For many health disciplines in Australia, culturally protected facts are being included in the
curriculum to promote cultural competencies, and the nurse leader and patient decision making,
and better care that promotes healthier outcomes (Kerridge, Lowe and Stewart, 2009). In many
of these health and related health courses, this study is a necessity for curriculum certification.

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Besides, the international council of nurses has asserted that nurses should be included in making
resolutions on how to reduce the effects of climate change in the environment. These nurses are
able how to make decisions as they have health literacy and can communicate effectively with
other nurses. The health literacy of the first nation’s people will help eliminate problems
associated with the weak prescription of drugs. Some indigenous nurses may not have adequate
knowledge and hence might end up giving the wrong prescription of drugs.
Question 3; Influences
External influences and contemporary factors that detract from safe cultural practices in
the health environment.
Some of the external factors that deviate from safe cultural practices in the healthy environment
of Australia include; automobile exhausts and air pollution from oil-producing companies. These
are things that cannot be avoided since automobiles are used all over, and hence the air gets
polluted( Browne et al.,2016). It leads to pollution of the environment and destruction of the
natural ecosystem. Water for consumption is polluted, and this predisposes individuals to
diseases. This makes the first nation nurses and midwives and the communities they serve to get
predisposed to diseases (Graham and Stamler, 2010).
Also, another external factor is politics. Some politicians in Australia are racist and abuse people
due to their color. This detracts from safe cultural practices in the healthy environment of the
free nation individuals. Lastly is the influence of non-governmental organizations tending to
fight for the disadvantaged groups. In Australia, these NGOs may have a positive influence on
safe cultural practices in the health environment.

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How these influences might impact to better the health outcomes of the organization
clients.
NGOs can contribute significantly to better health results of the first nation people of Australia
through mobilizing people to have access to health facilities. This makes them aware of their
rights to a healthy life. They can as well educate these groups on the dangers of environmental
pollution to avoid climate change.
Politics can improve the health outcomes of the organization's target clients. During campaigns,
some politicians mobilize people to visit health institutions and get treated for free. They also
seem to fight racism. By doing this, they promote safe cultural practices.
Barriers to implementing position statements that exist within the organization.
Barriers to effective implementation of the position statements of the organization exist and
include; corruption, some people in the CATSIaM may have a desire to embezzle public funds
meant to promote culturally safe education and safe working environments (Andermann, 2016).
Another barrier is the lack of policies within the organization that may protect the indigenous
groups against poor working environments and the safety of their health.
In conclusion, safe health practices are the key to quality health for the indigenous people of
Australia. Cultural safety health practices help to have improved outcomes in the health sector as
no one is restricted from accessing health care. Culturally safety practices in health reduce health
problems, and hence, there is increased satisfaction to the people. The CATISNaM organization
is a crucial part of Australia health as it ensures that every person is entitled to health rights. Safe
practices in the healthy environment of Australia promote unity among the people and make it

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one nation (Kildea et al., 2016) Government efforts in enhancing culturally safe health practices
were vital in implementing the position statements.

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