Cultural safety and nursing

CULTURAL SAFETY

INTRODUCTION

Cultural safety is model care which was first originated by the Nursing Council of New Zealand in the 1980s. Maori midwifery students first introduced it as a way to redress Maori health inequities. Cultural safety was an inadequate response to the health status of the indigenous people. The ‘term’ culture in healthcare has changed significantly in recent years. Religion is about ways of doing things, and it can be learned and changed (Jarvis, 2012). cis a connection between the nurse and the patient who is Experiencing illness, stress and other health problems. Culture is defined to include ethnicity, customs, tradition, beliefs, and values as well as socioeconomic status, age, gender, sexual orientation, religious and spiritual beliefs, ethnic/ immigration status, benefits And disabilities (NCNZ, 2011). According to Maori nursing fraternity, social safety is defined as:

“An environment that is safe for people: where there is no assault, challenge or denial of Their identity, of who they are and what they need. It is about shared respect, shared meaning, shared knowledge and experience of learning, living and working together with dignity and truly listening.”

This essay will illustrate the significance of the Bringing Them Home, explanation of Dispossession and The Stolen Generations.

BRINGING THEM HOME

Bringing them home was the name given to the final report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their Families which was conducted by the Human rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

The Attorney General developed the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families in 1995. Two years later, The 689-page final report, in the Australian Parliament, was discussed on 27 May 1997. This report raised the awareness among the Australian public, and the response was shock and horror among the people. In May 2017, on the 20th anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report, The Healing Foundation was released.

The government policies created our life partner and are forever with me, as though an invisible anchor around my neck. The moments that should be shared and rejoiced by a family unit, for my brother and mum and I are forever lost. The stolen years that are worth more than any treasure is irrecoverable. (Confidential submission 338, Victoria).

Grief and loss, tenacity and survival were the essential themes of this report. It was not an ordinary report. Most of its matter was so personal that ordinarily it would not be discussed. The inquiry only addressed the issue.