«This could be a platform for encouraging uptake of decolonising practices and processes within the health system at local and national levels, and for promoting and
embedding cultural safety in policy, practice and systems.»
Like other speakers, Phillips pointed to factors that can drive change in health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people —
embedding cultural safety standards in health and within national law, decolonising practices on a personal and systemic basis, and understanding the essential role of Indigenous knowledge in the delivery of services.
Simple requests, such as
embedding cultural safety — which can also be called education about racism — into health practitioner regulation law, are falling on deaf ears.
Embedding cultural safety into all aspects of society has helped us to transform Eurocentric systems and worldviews.
Over the next few years, as we move to
embedding cultural safety into our systems and services, supported by the forthcoming Version 2 of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards and CATSINaM's current campaign to have Cultural Safety embedded into our Health Practitioners legislation, let us ensure that this brings meaningful improvement to rural and remote health services.
«We are excited by the potential for the new standards to dovetail with our efforts in other areas to
embed cultural safety, for example in healthcare practitioner and accreditation legislation, and through enactment of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health plan.»
One of the highlights of my career has been working to use the virtual world — cyberspace — to
embed cultural safety, not only into the training and education of all who work in the health system — but also into wider societal systems.
Not exact matches
Cultural safety is also a headline issue this week in the Medical Journal of Australia, where Martin Laverty, Professor Dennis McDermott and Professor Tom Calma call for this «Indigenous - led model of care» to be
embedded across the health system.
Cultural safety has become so
embedded into all systems that it has become the norm — rather than something exceptional that people have to learn when they start training to be a nurse or a doctor.
As part of Croakey's ongoing Acknowledgement series, Janine Mohamed, CEO of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses (CATSINaM), advocated for the nursing profession to follow the lead of psychologists in making an apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as part of moves towards wider
embedding of
cultural safety.
Our belief is that when
Cultural Safety is
embedded and championed by these systems, this is possibly when parity and ultimately equity will be achieved.
In 2001, Ramsden presented at a conference of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses in Melbourne, and the organisation — then called CATSIN and now known as CATSINaM or the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives — is now advocating for
Cultural Safety to be widely
embedded across law, policy and practice.
As part of Croakey's ongoing Acknowledgement series, Janine Mohamed, CEO of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses (CATSINaM), suggests the nursing profession should follow the lead of psychologists in making such an apology as part of moves towards wider
embedding of
cultural safety.