Cultural Safety

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Cultural Safety
Robyn Williams
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     Objectives

• Critically examine the concept of cultural safety

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Objectives

• Reflect on the relevance of cultural safety to
  your work practice 

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Objectives

•      Analyse the issues pertinent to cultural
  safety of health service delivery

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Points to Consider

• As health professionals, educators, researchers,
  bureaucrats (whatever) - we need to understand
  that culture is a socially constructed phenomenon
  and there are all sorts of implications for
  social behaviour

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Points to Consider

• We also need to recognise that we need to develop
  a sophisticated critique of culture and cultural
  difference in order to practise safely and
  effectively

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• What is culture?
• Reflect on aspects and examples of your personal
  and professional identity that can be linked with
  your cultural background and experience

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• What is cultural awareness?
• Does this differ from cultural sensitivity? If so
  - how?

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• What is cultural safety and why do we have to
  think about it?
• List points for and against examining the issue
  of cultural safety

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• If you are working/studying with people who
  behave in a culturally unsafe way - how do you
  handle such a situation?

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• From your experience, do you have a sense that
  these objectives have been incorporated into the
  education and training of your particular
  profession?
• Do you think they should be?

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• How can you better incorporate these elements
  into your current practice?