Question 2 A. Give two examples of the evidence a health service can collect/keep and use to evaluate that they effectively engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and provide Cultural awareness for their staff.
B. What documentation should the health service be able to show an auditor to demonstrate/prove that they are using cultural safety strategies?
Think about how an organisation would demonstrate that they effectively engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and provide Cultural awareness for their staff and how they evaluate this. They would have strategies as you have stated but how would they provide evidence of these activities. EG policies/procedures, agendas, training docs/attendance and evaluations
b) Auditors need to see evidence of strategies being implemented and also evidence of the outcomes, so think about all the documents would be involved in training or meetings, what types of documents are used to review services.
Question 3 – In your own words explain how the “dominant culture in Australia” impacts on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and their engagement with services.
Question 4 – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands peoples are diverse. The First Nations people have sophisticated and subtle language and traditional custom variations. Give/explain four examples of differences between the First Nations peoples that you might experience. (50 words)
Question 5 Cultural safety is a philosophy used to guide the thinking and actions of health professionals. This philosophy promotes respect for the cultural uniqueness and values the importance of these in caring for others.
a. List two current policies which support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s cultural safety in a health care environment.
b. Explain how these policies support cultural safety
c. State how health care providers can evaluate these policies
Explain how the policies support cultural safety. What is there role?
Also you need to consider the variety of ways to evaluate these policies, From patients, staff, peers etc.
