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Course Team
Coralie Graham
Summary
In this unit Cultural Safety, as a practice model will focus on the intersectional disadvantage experienced in health and community care that results from forms of cultural dominance in service and professional practice. Various professional health and regulatory authorities in Australia are implementing cultural safety in their codes of practice.… For more content click the Read More button below.
SynopsisCultural Safety for Healthcare Professionals addresses intersectional disadvantages in health and community care due to cultural dominance. Responding to mandates from the NMBA and ANMAC, this course explores the influence of Cultural Safety on health practitioners, and its integration into regulatory frameworks.
Participants will critically analyse historical, social, political, and cultural determinants of health and their impact on First Nations peoples. Through applying a critical reflection lens to personal biases, and professional practices, learners will be able to develop strategies to promote culturally respectful healthcare, reshaping power dynamics and improving health outcomes for marginalized communities.
Participants will critically analyse historical, social, political, and cultural determinants of health and their impact on First Nations peoples. Through applying a critical reflection lens to personal biases, and professional practices, learners will be able to develop strategies to promote culturally respectful healthcare, reshaping power dynamics and improving health outcomes for marginalized communities.
Offerings
Block 3
OL-TWMBA-BL3
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, graduates will be able to:
1.
Evaluate the model, ‘Cultural Safety’ and the concepts and assumptions underpinning it and demonstrate how this knowledge impacts on practitioners’ interpretation of health, professional practice, and service systems
2.
Evaluate how AHPRA relates Cultural Safety to the professions’ regulatory frameworks.
3.
Analyse using a critical lens/framework, the historical, social, political and cultural determinants of health and their impacts upon individuals, communities, and health systems.
4.
Analyse how historical challenges faced by Indigenous people, such as institutional discrimination, have shaped the need for cultural safety and how the Practice "Model" addresses these needs.
5.
Critically analyse both a language and a conceptual framework that could be used to restructure the impact of power on practice and outcomes, and that consider intersectionality and the limits of individual approach.
6.
Design a personal cultural safety critical reflection on individual biases, professional practices, service delivery approaches, and systemic power structures that impact First Nations people.
Topics
Introduction to cultural safety.
Cultural safety - a practice model.
Historical literacy, power and the social determinants of health.
History, the self, and cultural safety.
The impact of power and beyond individualism.
The practice of cultural safety in everyday working life.
Assessments
Assessment due dates (as listed in Week Due) are indicative until finalised by the end of Week 1 for each Study Period (Offering). After Week 1, Assessment due dates may change with the approval of the Dean (Academic) or Delegate in limited circumstances. All Assessment due date changes approved after Week 1 will be communicated to students accordingly via Handbook and StudyDesk.