HSC230 Cultural Safety: Personal Attributes in Healthcare Report

This report presents a student's reflection on cultural safety in healthcare, incorporating a mind map to visually represent personal attributes such as values, beliefs, and behaviors. The reflection examines how these attributes contribute to or detract from becoming a culturally safe practitioner in a multicultural healthcare environment. The student identifies developed attributes and those requiring further development, discussing values like calmness, faith, and open-mindedness, behaviors such as adaptability, remorsefulness, and cordiality, and beliefs related to investing in others, accountability, and continuous learning. The report emphasizes the importance of a safe and respectful environment for patients and concludes with the need for functional interaction with personal values, beliefs, and behaviors to guarantee a viable healthcare environment. The assignment adheres to academic structure, referencing at least six sources to support its arguments.

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Cultural Safety In Health Care
Student’s Name
Instution Of Affiliation
Date
Mind Map and Written Reflection

CULTURAL SAFETY 2
Part 1: Mind Map
Mind Map and Written Reflection
Values
 Calmness.
 Confident.
 Faith.
 Open-mindedness.
Beliefs
 I believe in investing on others.
 I believe in accepting
accountability.
 I believe in success.
 I believe I can always learn new
skills.
Behaviours
 Adaptability.
 Remorseful.
 Cordial.
 Desire.
Me

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Part 2: Written Reflection
Australia is a cosmopolitan nation. There are many different clans, people born from
different places, people coming from different religions and possessing different beliefs,
socioeconomic difference and people speaking different languages. This makes Australia have a
diverse culture (Rickard, 2018). As a health care practitioner, I need to understand this diversity
and work towards offering a culturally safe environment to the patients. This is a journey am in.
This writes up discusses what is cultural safety, cultural competency and goes on to reflect on the
various behaviours, beliefs, and values which I possess.
Cultural Safety
Cultural safety is marked by an environment that is safe for people, where people are
treated with respect. Knowledge, experience, and respect is shared with dignity. Considering
everyone as an equal partner (Antonsen, 2017). Cultural competence is whereby we bring
together the different behaviours, attitudes and along with the set policies we create an
environment where different cultures are appreciated (Garneau & Pepin, 2015). Therefore with
this understanding, it’s important to evaluate my journey to becoming a competent practitioner.
Values
Values are a wide range of choices appropriate for an expected outcome. Values show
one's understanding of what is right and wrong( Boer & Boehnke, 2016). The values one have
influences their behaviours and attitudes. Therefore they in a big way determines one's responses
to patients and workmates. Calmness is one of the values I own; this is an inborn value within
me. The value has helped me to face harsh and violent people in soberness, reason when there
are urgent issues to be attended to especially when there is a patient who is in critical condition.
This has helped me deal with different people who need particular attention due to their beliefs
or culture.
Faith is the value that was introduced to me by my parents. They later took me to the
church where I have grown in my Christian faith. The value has helped me stand during tough
moments because of the trust I have in God. The value needs to be evaluated time to time to
ensure that I don’t judge people according to their faith since we have different religions and we
all have a right to whichever religion one wishes to associate with (Pritchard, 2017).
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I am confident. This value was cultivated in me by my parents. We were always taught to
carry out my duties with confidence. Overconfidence is a vice associated with this value, if one
is not conscious, when a case which is severe and beyond my capability comes I sometimes find
myself risking to handle it, and this sometimes turns out to be insensitive according to our
practising ethics. Openmindedness is the other value that has made me grow very fast in my
carrier; this is because am always open to new ideas.
Behaviours
This the way one conducts themselves (King, Dawson, Rothberg & Batmaz, 2016).
Adaptability has helped me make decisions when there are some severe cases to be attended. I
am flexible, and when a change comes, I like accepting the change and learning to live with the
change as fast as possible. This behaviour has helped me work in different places with different
people across the different cultures. I am remorseful, should I do something wrong am left
feeling so regretful, this causes me to underperform that day due to fear that the same mistake
may reoccur, am working on the understanding that a mistake is a mistake after one repeats. I
need to get my emotions to balance so that when things don’t go as I expected my other duties
are still appropriately accomplished.
Cordial is a behaviour that has helped me cope with many different people. Am very friendly,
heartfelt, and always relaxed even when situations are alarming. This helps me have a moment to
think on the solution when matters are out of balance. This nature though has though fixed me in
one or two circumstances since sometimes I get to compromise my issues since I cannot leave a
patient unattended to just because it’s someone else duty, my nature makes me feel like I have
committed the worst sin. I need to strike a balance between job and my family life (Armstrong,
Atkin- Plunk & wells, 2015). Desire, my longing is to see the patients get better this motivates
me to work hard and to do the best I can. The other longing is to know that I have improved in
my career regarding gaining more knowledge and developing my skills further.
Beliefs
Beliefs are all things that we hold on our lives to be true. They are set in such a way that
they make a reality of our lives since you live what you believe in, this determines the way one
will perform even at an area of duty (Hopkins, 2016). I believe in investing in others. My parents
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and my religion taught us that whenever we invested in others, then this investment will bounce
back. This has given me strength and reason to help others whenever they need me and also do
my best in my area of duty. I believe in accepting accountability. Most are the times when people
desire that they were not caught after they make a mistake, I am different, my wish is to do
things the right way. Should by any chance things go wrong, and the outcomes are undesired. I
like taking responsibility rather than place blame on others. I have found difficulty when dealing
with people who are not liberated. This is because they are always in search of ways to cover up,
which results in disagreement.
Successful for me is not an option, it is a must. Henrich, (2015) states that success cannot
come from what is within me alone but through my social interactions can gain more knowledge
and succeed. I have found challenges when dealing with people from different cultures, but this
has been a learning ground. Therefore I have taught myself to face the obstacles positively so
that with time I will be able to work anywhere without any difficulty. Finally, I believe that I can
always learn new skills, whatever I have is not sufficient enough.I have room to learn from my
colleagues and also advance knowledge from the school to make sure that my performance
improves for better every time a chance arises (Durey et al., 2017).
Conclusion
The success of delivery of health care to patients depends to a great extent in the
environment in which such a service is given. When patients visit the health centre, they expect
that such a centre will offer the best atmosphere which can be a catalyst for the healing process.
Beyond the physical environment in the health centre, there is also the emotional and
psychological environment. Such an environment can only be offered by the caregivers.
Therefore, there is a need for a functional interaction with my values, beliefs and behaviours to
guarantee a viable environment within the health care centre.
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