Twenty years from now it's a country that has closed the gap in health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians, where cultural safety doesn't begin in the health system but in our homes and schools and public discourse, and where recognition of the urgency of climate change has prompted a profound sea change around the world in the way we live and do business.
Not exact matches
Ginia Bellafante: «If the Child Victims Act, which in a future iteration might include stipulations about who is required to report abuse, doesn't get passed, it will tell us something not only about the way politicians capitulate to religious interests, but also about the
cultural pretenses we maintain around children's
safety.»
It could be a number of things: it could be better recording processes by the jurisdictions, could be them being able to finally ask the question and encourage people to identify, and probably I think the most positive aspect is it could be because of heightened awareness around the issue by MATSITI of
cultural safety — it could be that some of those teachers felt more comfortable in identifying by 2015 than they
did in 2012.
Given the heightened public focus on an important concept that
does not usually get much airtime, it is timely to take the opportunity to provide further information about
cultural safety.
Elissa will be tweeting about her experiences working in public health,
cultural safety, her research methods and is particularly interested in hearing from clinicians about how they «
do»
cultural safety.
Please share these stories, and if you are a nurse, midwife or health professional who
does support
cultural safety, please tweet #NursesSupportCulturalSafety or #ISupportCulturalSafety.
Let us remember that
cultural safety is a philosophy of practice that is about how a health professional
does something, not simply what they
do.
And much more needs to be
done on training our health system staff in
cultural safety.
Work being
done by the Australian Commission on
Safety and Quality in Health Care, by accreditation bodies, and by hospitals themselves, is making an important contribution to improving cultural safety in health
Safety and Quality in Health Care, by accreditation bodies, and by hospitals themselves, is making an important contribution to improving
cultural safety in health
safety in health care.
Cultural safety in our health system is something that we have much more work to
do.
How much time
do you spend planning for the emotional and
cultural safety of your Educators?
While I
do not want to get bogged down in semantics, I think that the concepts of
cultural safety and
cultural security both add something to the way we think about addressing lateral violence.
Cultural Safety and Cultural Humility Webinars - First Nations Health Authority The series will support development of tools and skills on how to be effective allies for advancing cultural safety and humility and what health service staff and allies can do to understand and integrate this work into their practice or interaction with First Nations and Aboriginal
Cultural Safety and Cultural Humility Webinars - First Nations Health Authority The series will support development of tools and skills on how to be effective allies for advancing cultural safety and humility and what health service staff and allies can do to understand and integrate this work into their practice or interaction with First Nations and Aboriginal Cl
Safety and
Cultural Humility Webinars - First Nations Health Authority The series will support development of tools and skills on how to be effective allies for advancing cultural safety and humility and what health service staff and allies can do to understand and integrate this work into their practice or interaction with First Nations and Aboriginal
Cultural Humility Webinars - First Nations Health Authority The series will support development of tools and skills on how to be effective allies for advancing
cultural safety and humility and what health service staff and allies can do to understand and integrate this work into their practice or interaction with First Nations and Aboriginal
cultural safety and humility and what health service staff and allies can do to understand and integrate this work into their practice or interaction with First Nations and Aboriginal Cl
safety and humility and what health service staff and allies can
do to understand and integrate this work into their practice or interaction with First Nations and Aboriginal Clients.
The series will support development of tools and skills on how to be effective allies for advancing
cultural safety and humility and what health service staff and allies can
do to understand and integrate this work into their practice or interaction with First Nations and Aboriginal Clients.