What are some examples of non-verbal communication?
body language, expression, eye, personal space, posture, sweating, blinking, gestures, voice volume/pitch/rate/tone/pauses/emphasis, non-verbal sounds
What is active listening?
A conscious effort to understand and respond to a whole message (attend, follow, reflect)
What is the difference between conscious and unconscious bias?
Conscious bias is when a person is open about their views, and makes a conscious decision to think and feel a particular way about a person or group of people. Unconscious bias is automatically activated and is not always obvious.
What are some strategies to address unconscious bias (there are four key ones)?
Awareness of own tendency and safety
Ready to engage and respond
Willing to regulate own behaviour
Able to meet Duty of Care within Scope of Practice
What is culture?
Shared worldview of a group of people
Shared patterns of behaviours, interactions, cognitive constructs and understanding learned by socialisation
What are the 5 principles of Ramsden's Cultural Safety Model?
Reflect on your own practice
Seek to minimise power differentials
Engage in discourse with client
Undertake a process of decolonisation
Ensure you do not diminish, demean or disempower others through your actions
What are the 3 tiers of patient centred care?
Mutual understanding, a therapeutic relationship, person centred goals and practice
What are the 7 parts to the Kalamazoo Framework for conducting a consultation?
Build a relationship
Open the discussion
Gather information
Understand the client's perspective
Share information
Reach agreements on problems/plans
Provide closure
What are the 5 types of consultation questions?
What is scope of practice?
There is no difference in communication, the only difference lies in the emotional and psychological challenges they face rather than language deficits
How can clinicians develop rapport and relationships with Indigenous Australian peoples?
Use a gentle, humble, friendly, warm approach. Let them know you are there to learn from them as well, and that you are not there to judge them. Humility is very important.
What are important aspects of Indigenous Australian culture?
Connection to land and culture, kinship systems, Tjukurrpa, community and family
What are some barriers to establishing and maintaining effective teamwork in healthcare?
What is the 3 step framework for managing conflict in teams?
Cool down, slow down, engage constructively