Cultural Safety Model

safety model provide a heightened level of both self-awareness and awareness of the differences of others in society.

The last step is Cultural safety, which is a lifelong learning process. Cultural safety is determined by the receiver of the care, if they feel spiritually, emotionally and socially safe then the care is considered culturally safe (Best, et al., 2014). Nurses are required to provide culturally safe care, and this is supported by the three NMBA codes for Registered Nurses, Code of Ethics for Nurses in Australia, Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses in Australia and Registered Nurse Standards for Practice. As a Nurse each patient should be treated as an individual as outlined in (NMBA, 2016) as the focus is heavily on person centred care. Consequently, nurses must be aware of

Also, it is awareness that none of these issues can be placed in a homogeneous box and treated with a one size fits all response. As outlined in the RN standards for practice, care must be person centred to take onboard the differences in values, beliefs and needs. (AMBA,). Another example of providing culturally safe care regarding kinship ties, is ensuring for Indigenous patients you respect the large and complex kinship ties and allow people to visit with the patient (Lohoar,Butera & Kennedy, 2014, p.3), similarly the family dynamics in Chinese immigents into Ausrralia are focused on family values rather than individual (Mak & Chan, 1996, para 9). Cultural safety is a process of constant self-reflection and allowing the patients you care for, to have a true level of self-determination. Given that Nurses are at the forefront of patient care in the healthcare setting they truly have a unique responsibility to ensue they uphold the varies standards and codes set out by the NMBA to guide the practice of Registered Nurse regarding cultural safety and thus