New Zealand requires doctors to meet the cultural safety standards, stating that, “Cultural safety requires doctors to reflect on how their own views and biases impact on their clinical interactions and the care they provide to patients. Cultural safety benefits all patients and communities. This may include communities based on Indigenous status, age or generation, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, religious or spiritual belief and disability.”
- Understand the difference between cultural competence, cultural safety and critical consciousness.
- Read about experiences in Australia
- Know to excercise caution when teaching ‘cultural competency’; not every Māori patient or whānau wants a pōwhiri or feels the need for a karakia when they come through the hospital door – understand that everyone is different. Be sensitive and recognise the diversity amongst Māori.
- Interview with Irihapeti Ramsden.
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