It commits them to actions and processes which will ultimately embed
culturally safe practices within all levels of health professional regulation.
Information shared through local cultural resources developed by AHICs, supports health care providers developing
culturally safe practices.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people value Yarning as
a culturally safe practices for sharing and growing knowledge.
Not exact matches
Culturally being straight forward for safety is not always accepted but the risk of a baby getting hurt or even dying outweighs all the consequences for me and I will always be found teaching
safest and best
practice.
Certainly infants sleeping separated from their caregivers at night (solitary room sleeping), infants sleeping on their stomachs (prone) to promote uninterrupted, early consolidation of adult - like sleep, and bottle - feeding with formula or cows milk rather than breast milk were all novel,
culturally - sanctioned but scientifically - untested (as
safe or best) infant care innovations.1 It is now known that each of these
practices has contributed to or led to thousands of SIDS deaths.3 - 5 Many of these infant lives, we can infer, could have been saved had we more carefully examined and come to understand the biological validity of mother - infant
safe co-sleeping, breastfeeding and infants sleeping on their backs (supine).
To ensure that all children develop the necessary cognitive, social, emotional and physical skills that build the foundation for life - long learning and early literacy; this is accomplished by providing a high quality,
safe and nurturing environment, responsive to the
culturally diverse and unique needs of each child, through individual and interactive learning opportunities, supported by excellence in teaching and research - based instructional
practices aligned with the NYS Learning Standards and the District's curricula, in partnership with parents, staff, policy makers and community organizations.
As educators, we can use students» perspective to inform our lesson planning and instruction and create optimal learning environments where students are
safe — physically, emotionally, and intellectually, engaged and motivated with
culturally responsive
practices, and where differences are understood, welcomed, and celebrated!
When I look back, I recognise that he embodied
culturally safe and respectful
practice, long before the term had even been invented.
Culturally safe and respectful
practice therefore is not about learning about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples — in fact you can never know this.
The training often proves to be a transformative learning process for participants whereby personal social responsibility and ethical accountability is challenged to produce a deep conscious shift in the thinking that translates into
culturally -
safe professional
practice.
This knowledge can help professionals to create
culturally safe service environments and
practices, develop relationships and collaborative partnerships with local Aboriginal communities, and support the factors essential to the health of Aboriginal children and families.
Knowing and acknowledging this history is particularly important for health systems and professionals, given that current Australian health dialogue supports the development of
culturally safe services and
practices, and this requires an understanding of one's own profession's historical complicity in such events.
This is a step CATSINaM believes is necessary if we the profession is to play an active role in realising the words in current government policy on the development of
culturally safe services and
practices.
This will require a significant shift for many health professionals working within these systems, to ensure their
practice is
culturally safe and that their clients have access to effective, evidence - based programs.
... We need a system that justice system that is best
practice and
culturally safe for Aboriginal children faced with detention.
Blackman, R., (2009) Knowledge for
practice: Challenges in
culturally safe nursing
practice.
Their development and application, however, could lead to improved quality of care and overall health status for First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples by: providing the skills, knowledge and attitudes that public health practitioners could draw upon to provide
culturally competent and
safe health services to Aboriginal individuals and communities; improving academic curriculum, training programs, professional certification, health services planning, health policy, and health program evaluation standards; and providing standardized assessment criteria to help governments and organizations share best
practices more efficiently and promote
culturally safe health services.