Cultural safety
Celebrating NAIDOC week July 7-14, 2024
Providing a culturally safe practice engages people who have avoided connecting with health care services. Within a culturally safe space people feel good and the care aligns with their needs.
A sign of cultural safety learning is getting uncomfortable, for non-indigenous viewers Nicole’s presentation is both eye-opening and challenging.
The presentation covers:
- The difference between cultural awareness and cultural safety
- The initial steps of ‘knowing’ and ‘being’ to delivering culturally responsive services.
- Knowing:
- Legacies of colonisation
- Spirit of truth telling
- Australia wars history
- Developmental vulnerability
- Broken trust and validated fear of the system
- Racism and privilege
- The role of intergenerational trauma and shame
- Aboriginal perspectives
- Holistic worldview
- Importance of family/kinship
- Cultural strengths and ancient wisdom
- Respect and reciprocity
- Diverse identity
- Legacies of colonisation
- Being:
- Unlearning
- Western dynamic of health professional Vs client
- Assessment approaches
- Addressing the fear of making mistakes
- Bias, stereotypes, racism
- Privilege and power
- Shifting the focus to the quality of the relationship
- Unlearning
- Knowing:
Read a review of the presentation here
Watching this presentation and completing the assessment can contribute towards assessable Continuing Professional Development hours
About the Presenter Nicole Hewlett, Project manager, PhD Candidate The University of Queensland
Nicole Hewlett is a proud Palawa woman (south-east Lutruwita) and currently works with Aboriginal Medical Services on a number of culture-centred and healing-based projects at The University of Queensland (UQ). Previously, Nicole was the National Indigenous Manager for Indigenous Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (IPEPA) building the capacity of non-Indigenous and First Nations workforce to deliver culturally responsive, healing-informed and trauma aware palliative care to First Nations peoples. She has extensive experience and is passionate about drawing on and translating culturally responsive frameworks, strengths-based approaches and wellbeing models into a range of different practice settings to create equitable access to knowledge, services and supports among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Registration includes
- Access to a recording of the presentation
- Presentation notes
- Assessment quiz and certificate
- Suggested further reading