Culture
What is culture?
The shared worldviews, ideas, customs, cognitive constructs and social behaviours of a particular group/society/community. Dynamic, evolving and multi-faceted.
Who is the author of Ramsden's Cultural Safety Framework?
Maori nurse researcher Dr Irihapeti Ramsden
What is principle 3 of cultural safety?
Engage in discourse with the client -
Engagement with a client’s unique needs, beliefs, understandings and preferred methods of actions.
What is the purpose of understanding culture for allied health practitioners?
To become a culturally competent health practitioner with the ability to recognise and respect cultural diversity.
What is the purpose of cultural safety in allied health?
Ensuring services are safe, effective and respectful for all users, regardless of their cultural background and their personal beliefs/values/perspectives.
What is principle 2 of cultural safety?
Seek to minimise power differentials -
Managing power imbalances between clinician and client by acknowledging personal values/beliefs/attitudes and their impact, understanding the power of allied health professions, and knowing colonial histories and how these have impacted Indigenous Australians.
What are some examples of aspects of surface culture?
Food, music, games, fashion, language, literature, holidays, dances, festivals.
What is cultural awareness?
A beginning step towards understanding that there is a difference, awareness of the contexts in which people exist, awareness of own cultural identity.
What is principle 1 of cultural safety?
Reflect on your own practice -
Reflection upon a practitioner's own cultural identity, assumptions about health/illness, personal/patient definitions of health, the consequences of these definitions upon a client's care.
What are some examples of aspects of deep culture?
Communication styles and rules
Attitudes toward senior citizens/children/work/age/authority
Concepts of time/family/self
Notions of friendship/leadership/beauty
What is cultural sensitivity?
Cultural sensitivity legitimises and validates difference, a process of self-exploration of personal life experience and the impacts these may have on practice.
What is principle 4 of cultural safety?
Undertake a process of decolonisation -
Decolonising clinical practice by engaging in deep reflection and understanding the history and lasting impact of discrimination established by colonial governance.
What is cultural identity?
A feeling of belonging to a group, providing a sense of self and where we fit in the world. Important for social and emotional wellbeing.
What is cultural safety?
An outcome that enables safe and respectful healthcare services for all (safety is defined by those receiving the service).
What is principle 5 of cultural safety?
Ensure that you do not diminish, demean or disempower others through your actions -
Engaging in self-reflection upon own beliefs, values and attitudes to understand how personal principles affect practice and to provide a safe environment for clients.