Cultural Safety Action Plan: Enhancing Patient Care in Healthcare

This report presents a personal cultural safety action plan designed to guide healthcare professionals in providing culturally sensitive and safe care. The introduction emphasizes the importance of cultural safety, defining it as the core values and behaviors within a stable group, and highlights the plan's objective: to cultivate culturally safe practices in healthcare settings. Part 1 of the plan outlines goals and objectives, such as improving patient experiences through culturally safe relationships, ensuring patient safety and needs, involving patients in their care, and understanding patient issues. Each objective includes strategies for implementation, resources, and methods for overcoming potential barriers, alongside evaluation methods. Part 2 provides the rationale for the plan, emphasizing the need for nurses to respect patient values and ethics, improve communication, and offer quality care, and details the strategies for implementing the plan, including resource utilization and barrier mitigation. The report concludes by summarizing the plan's significance and offering a comprehensive overview of the strategies for developing a safe and culturally sensitive healthcare environment, supported by references to relevant literature.

Culture and safety Action Plan

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1- Personal Cultural Safety action Plan................................................................................1
Goals and objectives...............................................................................................................1
PART 2: Rationale...........................................................................................................................3
The need for such a plan.........................................................................................................4
Plan Implementation Strategies .............................................................................................4
Resources................................................................................................................................4
Identified the strategies will overcome any barriers/challenges.............................................4
Monitoring progress the plan implementation.......................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Culture of Safety is the important concern which described the core values and
behaviours of an individual person. In other words, Culture define an individual’s values,
beliefs and behaviours of stable group members. The basic purpose or the aim of the
study is developed a personal cultural safety action plan to become a culturally safe
health professional. Therefore, the present action plan will be classified into two part in
which first part is developing personal cultural safety action plan. Part one outline the
goals and objectives set by the learner like how to enhance communications and health
literacy with patients. In second part of the study will explains the reason to develop a
personal action plan which outline the method of implementation of the plan as well.
Overall, the intent of the report is to deliver the best outcomes in order to develop the
good practices in health profession.
PART 1- Personal Cultural Safety action Plan
Goals and objectives
Goal: Nurse will ensure to make equality at workplace. Also they will make sure that in
my presence my all patients feel safe and secure.
Objectives Training and
resources
Barriers and
strategies to
overcome them.
Method of
Evaluation
To improvise the
patient experience
through culturally
safe relationship
base care.
In order to full fill this
objective Nurse will
take training for
further development
while aligning the
practices in best
manner.
While implementing
the practices at
workplace
environment. It
might be creating
conflict and
misunderstanding
among people. In
order to get over
from this issue.
Nurse can ensure
This process or the
objective can be
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that they can taking
one to one session
with all patients to
better understand
them.
evaluated through
Writing conferences,
Discussion with
seniors and taking
feedback from them
or taking weekly self
evaluations,
checklist. From all
such methods they
can make sure my
own performance.
To ensure the
positive situations
for patient safety
and needs.
Nurse can use
different modern
devices and
equipment to ensure
the security
environment around
the patient. Also
they can ensure the
availability of
equivalents which
makes patient
comfortable and feel
safe.
Barriers of
ineffective care
equipment can
effective patient
safety and needs.
Also, there can be a
language barrier
while interacting with
the patient. In order
to overcome from
this barrier nurse
can use of simple
language, use
repetition of words.
Also, nurse can
ensure proper
equipment before
using them.
To Involve the
patient while
providing services to
them.
In order to deliver
the best services to
the patient Nurse
can make sure that
the environment
policies or workplace
policies is accurate
In this process, there
can be barriers of
cultural background,
values and beliefs.
This affect the
process of patient
involvement while
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and according to the
patient safety.
providing them
services. This barrier
can be removed by
creating a friendly
environment among
patients.
To determine the
scope of applying
the different
principles of cultural
safety in the
workplace for patient
security.
In order to
accomplish this set
of objectives. Nurse
need to attend the
some following
classes and
sessions such as to
know some of the
major and significant
principles.
Lack of source to
gathered information
can be the major
barrier. In order to
overcome this,
Nurse can take help
from my seniors or
to study books and
articles as well.
To understand
patient’s issues and
try to resolve them
Nurse need to
attend session to get
more knowledge of
services available
through the TIS.
Due to lack of brief
information about
patient can be the
major barrier while
understanding the
patient issues. For
that, Nurse need to
go through from
his/her case and
gathered full
information about
the patient.
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PART 2: Rationale
Rationale: It is important for nurse to provide care services of the patient without
considering any culture differentiation. The main purpose of developing a cultural safety
action plan is to secure environment and build a good relation of nurse with the patient.
Beside this, plan will emphasise on effective communication with patient and offering
care services. On the other hand, another reason to build the cultural safety action plan
is to ensure the communication between nurse and patient which is very important and
necessary.
The need for such a plan
There are different codes of conduct which has to be followed by nurses. It
allows them to engage with patient in proper way and respect their values and ethics
(Ghaferi, Amir and Justin Dimick (2015). Moreover, in this plan a framework is provided
to them regarding how to communicate with patient and what standards or protocols is
to be followed. They know their roles and responsibilities and offer care services to
attain specific outcomes (Frush & et.al., (2018). The following of plan helps in improving
health outcomes. Each nurse develops plan as per their needs.
Plan Implementation Strategies.
To implementing strategies into nursing practice it requires some process to be
ensure by the hand of nurse like proper ensuring the requirement, number of patient
rooms. Also, it must be checked by the culture & safety professional that workplace
policies must be according to the patient safety. As according to the survey of AHRQ on
patient it has been identified that how staff and perceives various aspects of [patient
safety culture (Westat, 2016). Another strategy to implement the plan is to ensure the
proper safety goals is to upgrade the knowledge and information from the TIS.
Resources
Knowledge difficulties majorly affect the outcomes and quality performance which
negatively impact the provision of nursing. In order to get overcome from this barrier,
nurse should always be more updated regarding new information. However, nurses can
also get involved in cultural competence and cultural safety programs in order to trained
themselves in developing capabilities (Garrouste-Orgeas & et.al., (2015). The main
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resource which is useful in nursing is to evaluate the high performance objectives and
goals.
Identified the strategies will overcome any barriers/challenges.
Nurse can perform this practice by getting new knowledge from training sessions.
In order to gain knowledge in the context of knowing principles of culture safety. Nurse
can go through from some books and articles to get the deep understanding about the
principles. In order to accomplish the plan objectives nurse can use different strategies
to overcome the barriers like for communication nurse can use simple language or
create friendly environment with them. Also to gathered information and learn about the
safety principle. Nurse can take help from its seniors and mentors.
Monitoring progress the plan implementation
In order to measure the own performance level, nurses can use the methods of
self-evaluation or get feedback from their seniors (Pettker & Grobman, (2015). Such
practices of monitoring help to see their own capabilities and weakness. On the other
hand, Individual can measure the success on the basis of the position gained in within
the health practice or taking feedback from the clients as well.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above report it has been analysed that how nursing can make the
culture and safety action plan in order to secure the patient health. Therefore, present
research outlined the action plan by supporting methods and techniques.
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REFERENCES
Books & Journals
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Frush, K. & et.al., (2018). National quality program achieves improvements in safety
culture and reduction in preventable harms in community hospitals. The Joint
Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 44(7). 389-400.
Garrouste-Orgeas, M. & et.al., (2015). The Iatroref study: medical errors are associated
with symptoms of depression in ICU staff but not burnout or safety
culture. Intensive care medicine. 41(2). 273-284.
McKenzie, L. N. & et.al., (2019). Factors Influencing the Implementation of a
Hospitalwide Intervention to Promote Professionalism and Build a Safety Culture:
A Qualitative Study. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
Pettker, C. M. & Grobman, W. A. (2015). Obstetric safety and quality. Obstetrics &
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Ghaferi, Amir A., and Justin B. Dimick (2015). "Understanding failure to rescue and
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Westat, R. M. D. 2016. Action Planning Tool for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety
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