Cultural safety

Cultural safety is the effective nursing practice of nursing a person or family from another culture; it is determined by that person or family.[1][need quotation to verify] It developed in New Zealand, with origins in nursing education. An unsafe cultural practice is defined as an action which demeans the cultural identity of a particular person or family.[citation needed]

Cultural safety has four separate principles:

  1. to improve health status and well-being
  2. to improve the delivery of health services
  3. to focus on the differences among the people who are being treated, and to accept those differences
  4. to focus on understanding the power of health services and on how health care impacts individuals and families
  1. ^ "Guidelines for Cultural Safety, the Treaty of Waitangi and Māori Health in Nursing Education and Practice" (PDF). Nursing Council of New Zealand. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2020.