Healthcare History
Canada has had universal healthcare for over this many years.
What is 40 years?
This approach relies mostly on awareness of cultural differences.
What is cultural sensitivity?
In cultural safety, who decides if the care provided is respectful and culturally safe
What is the patient?
This principle reminds healthcare providers that cultural safety is defined by the patient, not the provider.
What is patient-defined care?
This Canadian organization formally recognizes cultural safety as an official policy in nursing practice.
What is the Canadian Nurses Association?
This type of immigration has increased over the past three decades and helped expand Canada’s multicultural population.
What is non-Western immigration?
This approach involves training and certification.
What is cultural competency?
In culturally safe care, nurses follow the Four Rs and avoid the Three Ds. Name one of the Three Ds that nurses must avoid.
What is Diminish / Demean / Disempower?
This rule emphasizes reflecting on personal biases, assumptions, and prejudices when providing care.
What is self-awareness (or cultural humility)?
This concept acknowledges that cultural safety has limits and depends on mutual respect between patients and healthcare providers.
What is reciprocal cultural safety?
True or False: Older healthcare models assumed patients would follow medical instructions without questioning them.
What is true?
True or false: Cultural competence says that everyone in that culture wants the same level of care
What is false?
Cultural safety is compared to this nursing practice, which requires constant awareness and self-reflection to prevent harm.
What is sharps safety?
Labeling a patient as “non-compliant” without exploring barriers violates this cultural safety principle.
What is non-judgment and respect?
In Canada, this culturally accepted practice in some countries is considered a criminal offense involving assault on a minor under the Criminal Code
What is female genital mutilation/female infant circumcision and infibulation?
Over time, Canadians have become more ______ of their rights and privileges.
What is assertive?
Name two advantage of cultural sensitivity.
What is comfortable? What is decreases misunderstandings?
Historical and social power imbalances, such as colonization and systemic discrimination, can influence how safe patients feel in healthcare settings.
What is power imbalances affect cultural safety in healthcare?
This cultural safety rule recognizes that healthcare interactions are influenced by colonial history, racism, and power imbalances.
What is recognizing power, history, and oppression?
This Inuit-led maternity care model allows low-risk births to occur in the community and has outcomes comparable to the best hospitals in Southern Canada.
What are the Inuulitsivik Maternities?
If healthcare disparities continue among certain groups, it can lead to these concentrated areas of illness that threaten the health of the entire population.
What are pockets of disease and poor health?
Cultural competency can fail because it uses a ______ approach that fails to work for every patient.
What is checklist?
This Māori nurse and academic developed the concept of cultural safety in the 1980s.
What is Irihapeti Ramsden?
Working with patients and communities to make health decisions, rather than imposing care plans, reflects this cultural safety principle.
What is partnership and shared decision-making?
These two Canadian Indigenous programs focus on long-term health outcomes through community-led initiatives addressing chronic disease and intergenerational trauma.
What are the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project and the Aboriginal Healing Foundation’s Healing Centres?