This assignment will endeavour to discuss cultural safety and the application to nursing practice. It will highlight three specific issues from the chosen scenario that impacts nursing care, three workplace changes and a suggested change management model used to implement these changes and finally highlight factors that display culturally competent and person centred care is being practiced. In 1980’s the concept of cultural safety was introduced initially to deliver appropriate health services to
Introduction Practicing cultural safety requires nurses to have undertaken personal reflection of their own cultural identity. This enables them to recognise the impact that their personal culture has on their professional practice (Cox & Taua, 2013). This personal reflection should allow the nurse to provide effective care to an individual or family from a different culture (Cox & Taua, 2013). In this essay I will reflect upon two of my own cultural groupings, discuss the concept of “other”, the
Zealand Nurse Today’s New Zealand society is commonly described as bi-cultural or multi-cultural according to the Treaty of Waitangi-based social structure and immigrants from all over the world. The increasing mobility and diversity of society have proposed the holistic and culturally competent caring concept for professional nurses (Ryan, Carlton & Ali, 2000). Meanwhile, based on my ethno-cultural identity, my philosophy of nursing would be defined as that caring individuals within holistic and transcultural
perspective of cultural safety, culture is broadly defined to include ethnicity, customs, tradition, beliefs and values as well as socioeconomic status, age, gender, sexual orientation, religious and spiritual beliefs, ethnic/immigration status, values and disabilities (NCNZ, 2011). Culture is about ways of doing things and it can be learned and changed (Jarvis, 2012). Ethnicity on the other hand a is a form of identification or belonging to a social group bonded by common history and cultural tradition
Treaty of Waitangi with regards to the treaty text and the principles behind it and the relevance to the health and wellbeing of the Maori people in New Zealand. The Cultural Safety and other principles that are considered in the healthcare practice will also be tackled. While most of the discussion is focused on the treaty, cultural safety and Maori health various concerns are also considered to provide a suitable foundation on the topic. The treaty of Waitangi is the founding document of New Zealand
Organizational development for cultural safety: A CASE STUDY Culture means the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or society. The learned yet dynamic ways of being in everyday life, informed by attributes such as age, class, ability, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, which influence beliefs, values and attitudes and how humans explain and respond to life’s context and circumstances (Cox, 2013, p1-25). Since people from different communities adhere to different cultures
personal, cultural, and spiritual values contribute to your worldview and philosophy of nursing? How do these values shape or influence your nursing practice? Ethics and values form the basis of nursing. Nurses provide nursing care by preventing illness, reducing suffering and promoting restoration of health in individuals, families, societies and communities. Nursing involves technical skills and abilities, duty and service to others with compassion and efficient decision-making. Nursing care ensures
Waitangi. 2. Explain why considering Maori cultural preferences are important in counseling practice. Consideration of cultural preferences to Maori or other sets of people are crucial to the department of counseling because counseling is best practice with good rapport and trust development. (Hirini, 1997). When one counselor is sensitive with Maori’s cultural background then this person will approach according to the client’s known social practice. Example, introduction and assessment cannot
Prostate cancer is a major health issue for men in New Zealand. This essay will discuss a health initiative that aims to improve health outcomes for men and the role of the nurse in the health initiative. Culture of nursing, and its impact on prostate cancer in men will also be described (McMurray & Clendon, 2012). Task A) The Ministry of Health (2013) launched a four year programme to improve health outcomes for men with prostate cancer called The Prostate Cancer Awareness and Quality Improvement
Through research, you can learn that postcolonial discourse is an “academic discipline that analyzes the cultural legacies of colonialism and of imperialism.” It is made up of theories found amongst “history anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, film, political science, architecture, human geography, sociology, Marxist theory, feminism, religious and theological studies, and literature.” An understanding of postcolonial discourse could be what colonized societies handed down to succeeding generations