Aboriginal Patients: Social and Cultural Environment- Cultural Safety Assignment Help

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Cultural Safety Assignment Help:

Task: In the Week 9 reading, Managing two worlds together, Kelly et al. (2011) explore the experiences of Aboriginal patients and their carers when accessing health care. These experiences are particularly interesting as the patients’ care continuum requires them travel away from their remote home towns to hospitals in the capital city. Kelly et al. (2011, pp. 1-2) outline four (4) themes that impacts upon access and quality of care: 1. the direct interpersonal encounter; 2. access barriers; 3. coordination and quality; and, 4. social and cultural environment. (Hint: To assist with a concise response, perhaps consider at least one (1) of the five (5) principles of cultural safety established by the Nursing Council of New Zealand [cited in Best, 2018, pp. 58-61 –Week 1 reading]: 1. reflect on your own practice; 2. seek to minimise power differentials; 3. engaging in discourse with the client; 4. undertake a process of decolonisation; and, 5. ensure that you do not diminish, demean or disempower others through your actions. This week you are asked to discuss how the understanding and practice of cultural safety could address at least one (1) of the issues identified by Kelly et al. (2011). This is how I started By understanding cultural safety you can address the issues of social and cultural environment in the healthcare system. Social and cultural environment includes: how the people view the world.