Cultural Safety Issues Analysis for Gurung Staff: A Report

This report examines potential cultural safety issues, focusing on the challenges faced by Aboriginal peoples within healthcare settings. It identifies key issues such as the erosion of cultural practices due to lack of education, the impact of forced resettlement, and the complexities of kinship systems. The report rates the impact of these issues and suggests improvements, including educational initiatives and land agreements. It further explores cultural biases, the impact of one's own cultural awareness, and effective communication techniques. The report highlights the role of cultural brokers, emphasizes the importance of building partnerships, and provides strategies for evaluating cultural safety outcomes, including practical communication and work practice recommendations. The report also addresses potential negative impacts on staff and Aboriginal individuals, offering solutions to mitigate conflict and promote understanding.

Running head: POTENTIAL CULTURAL SAFETY ISSUES
POTENTIAL CULTURAL SAFETY ISSUES
Name of the University
Name of the Student
Author Note

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Question 1:
Identify and summarize 3
potential cultural safety issues
(50-100 words)
Rate
the
impact
Suggest at least one way that
you can improve the practice
(50-100 words)
2. Cultural issues like cultural practices
and identities of the primeval people have
been decaying with time. The reason
behind this is non-engagement of these
people in the proper education system.
The culture of the aboriginal people is
complex, distinct in nature, and different
from other. Hence, this creates a challenge
for the people to learn the traditions,
history and the cultural practices of these
people.
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Providing proper education about the
aboriginal people to the native and non-
native children to make them aware of
the different cultural practices. The
education system should include this in
the syllabus to reach the knowledge
about the aboriginal people to the
public. This will not only help to
broaden the native cultural practices but
also will help the indigenous people to
be proud of their culture (Bratton and
Gold 2012).

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2. The forced resettlement of the
aboriginal people to the new land and loss
of the native land are evident in the
present aboriginal people experiencing
disadvantages in the aspect of education.
This disadvantage of the aboriginal people
has created a sense of disbelief in the
present society, followed by the bitter
memories of the past.
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The government should take initiatives
in making agreement on the land
development for the aboriginal people
ensuring the wellbeing of their future.
The resettlement caused an identity
crisis by losing the native land and
background, which can be removed by
this kind of land agreement with the
aboriginal people. Engagement of the
government will recreate the belief in
these people.
2. Kinship system determining the
relationship among the people and the
indebtedness, duty and responsibilities
also deals with lands and ceremonies. This
intricate process of kinship also deals with
the issues like marriage, formal
relationship, funeral job and behavioral
performance with other native members
and followers of the ethnic group.
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Enhancement of the educational
knowledge regarding the aboriginal
people presents the necessities of the
different cultural practices. Being aware
of the other different cultures in the
society not only helps the people to
improve their knowledge about other
cultural practices but also enable them
to merge several cultural relationships
with native and non- native people.
Question 2:

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Part A
One of the cultural bias that can affect the treatment of the aboriginals in Gurung is
certain belief among the community. The aboriginals practices certain religious or cultural
beliefs that may not be paramount in other general community. Any staff unaware of the
belief or the practices may disrespect the same, which can cause conflict and resentment
within the workplace.
Part B:
The term cultural competence defines a set of principles an ethics, depicts policies,
behaviors, attitudes and structure that makes the same to function cross culturally (Kirmayer
2012). It is a process that takes extended time period to develop and evolve the values of a
culture. Cultural competence is a complex process determining self-assessment of different
cultural variables.
Question 3:
The awareness of own culture can actually have negative impact on the indigenous
child in Gurung. For example, if I belong to the European culture, I may not be familiar with
the traditional ethics, values and the customs of the aboriginals. It can be possible for the
child belonging to the aboriginal to behave in a different way unlike the children I am
familiar with. Being grown up in a different society and with different values my behavior
towards the child can offend him or her, since it is not common in his community practice,
this is how the awareness of own culture can project a negative impact on the aboriginal
child.

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Question 4:
(a) A potentially useful communication
technique
Language is one of the major factors in the that
can be considered in the communication with the
native people. It is predominant to respect some
of indigenous culture. Using silence as a
communication practice cannot be considered as
it may interpret the misunderstanding of the
subject matter. The consultation with the
indigenous people is suggested to avoid
miscommunication and doubt. It is suggested that
the people generate good relationship with the
native community people and learn general
common words. While communicating with the
aboriginals people should be open minded and
avoid negative perception.

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(b) A potentially useful work practice
Certain practices and custom in the community
are executed separately in terms of gender. These
practices are referred as Men’s Business and
Women’s Business respectively. These practices
comprehend rigorous regulations and certain
penalties if the rules of the customs are broken
(Jackomos 2015). The staff of the Gurung should
keep in mind this internal community laws while
communicating with any of the community
members. This cannot be meant as offensive or
personal. This is actually the way of showing
respect to the community which has been going
on through generations.
Question 5:
Part A:
Cultural Broker is someone who links between the indigenous culture and the present
society. A cultural broker helps in mediating between the two group and making both groups
aware of the cultures of another. The person being the cultural broker helps diminishing the
conflict arising from the miscommunication and poor knowledge of other culture between the
two groups. The cultural broker is considered to be the middleman and the creator of the
bridge between the two different groups (Gustafsson, Norström and Fioretos 2013). Cross
cultural issues like language, beliefs, practices, customs and many others can be avoided by
putting a cultural broker as the interpreter for both communities.

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Part B:
1. There ca arise situation while providing proper education to the Aboriginals, the children of
the community may find it not understandable since their language and physical activities
are diverse from the rest of the people. In such situation, I would need a cultural broker to
help me as well as the aboriginal learners out from the language problem.
2. While providing the health care to the aboriginals, they may hesitate to share their health
problem to someone out of their community. In such situation, nothing can be helpful to
them from my side as they are already frightened from their past experience. This is when, I
would need a cultural broker to make the situation easy and comfortable to the aboriginal
people.

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Question 6:
1. Build effective partnerships
between Gurung’s staff and all
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait
Islander peoples.
I would like to initiate the engagement of the aboriginal
people in the welcoming program of the family and the
close work with the family members and the professional
fellow. I would like to transform the most of the staff
members of Gurung to cultural broker from the former
introduction if the staffs are comfortable in the same.
Working together with the aboriginal culture will enable
us to build a good and effective relationship with them.
2. Identify and utilize resources to
promote partnerships with the
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait
Islander local community.
I would lie to motivate the staff members to attend the
local cultural programs and engage in the local
organizations providing health care to build an effective
partnership. This cultural engagement will help to grow
the bonding between the two groups and diminish the
sense of inferiority in the native people.

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3. Devise and document ways to
support the delivery of services
and programs that are ‘culturally
safe’ and encourage increased
participation in them.
To support the culturally safe programs and encourages I
would like to talk to the group that is owned by
traditional person from the native community, which I
believe will provide relevant information to support the
delivery of the culturally safe services and the program.
This information can be gathered as documents for
further solutions to the cultural safety issues.
4. Integrate strategies that
encourage self- determination
and community control at
Gurung by Aboriginal and/or
Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The leaders in Gurung can encourage and support the
young generation by conducting conferences and making
them agree to attend the same. In the conference people
can have knowledge about the different cultural
practices. This engagement will not only help them to
acquire more knowledge but also help to be proud about
their community and heritage. Investing into conducting
the conference should be responsible for needs of the
Aboriginal people for present as well as future.
Question 7:
1. The protocol is one of the outcomes in the cultural safety and it can be measured. this
protocol is engaged in respecting by asking for permission or informing of consent,
finding knowledge of cultural practices by interrogating, understanding and realizing
the purpose of learning, identifying individuals within the cultural community.

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2. The cultural safety outcome as positive purpose that helps in creating strengths,
ensures the accountability and the confidentiality. The outcome also helps avoiding
negative impacts and secures the beneficial factors.
3. Another outcome of the cultural safety is the making of partnership which delivers
engagement practice basing upon the genuine encounters and the mutual knowledge.
Question 8:
I would like to practically communicate with the aboriginal people to implement my
strategies for an effective relation between the nonnative staffs and the native staffs of
Gurung. I would rather try to convince them for engaging in the social gathering and try to
eliminate the sense of inferiority in them. By sponsoring awareness program for the young
people in the community, I could be able to build a direct communication with them.
Question 9:
1. The first way that I could evaluate the cultural safety against desired outcome is by
improving the engagement level of significant aboriginal people. The evaluation can also be
done by guaranteeing all the contribution by the indigenous people after predominant
consultation and providing the aboriginal individual opportunities to be engaged in the
process of decision making. Developing the relationships with the family members of them
can also be helpful.
2. The second way that I can think of evaluating the cultural safety against the desired
outcome is by securing the acceptance and accordance of the minimal respect for the
diversity of the cross-cultural individuals by all the people in the society. The evaluation will
also consider the anticipation of the cultural safety. Irrespective of the background of the

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people, respecting the beliefs, knowledge, language and religions can be the key factor of the
evaluation.
Question 10:
The engagement and the concerns of the cultural, racial, health and the betterment of
the indigenous people can project a negative impact on the staffs Gurung and it can also
affect the professional relationship within the staffs. This is because most of the staffs in
Gurung are not indigenous. Tis can as well project a negative influence and experience on the
aboriginals, since they already have negative experience relating to the past. This whole
impact can result as the misunderstanding and the miscommunication. I would like to aware
every one of these negative impacts and try to cease creating any conflict among the staffs.

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Bratton, J. and Gold, J., 2012. Human resource management: theory and practice. Palgrave
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Gustafsson, K., Norström, E. and Fioretos, I., 2013. The interpreter—a cultural
broker?. Interpreting in a Changing Landscape: Selected papers from Critical Link 6, 109,
p.187.
Jackomos, A., 2015. International human rights day oration: Linking our past with our future:
How cultural rights can help shape identity and build resilience in Koori kids. Indigenous
Law Bulletin, 8(17), p.20.
Kirmayer, L.J., 2012. Rethinking cultural competence.