Healthcare professionals’ cultural safety practices for indigenous peoples in the acute care setting – a scoping review

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Moloney, Ali
Stuart, Lynne
Chen, Yingyan
Lin, Frances
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2023
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BACKGROUND: For Indigenous Peoples the disparities in health status are largely associated with the direct social determinants of invasion and colonisation, marginalisation, intergenerational traumas, and lack of conscious government policy to address these ongoing effects. There is currently limited evidence in the literature on what Cultural Safety practices mean in acute care settings. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to current knowledge and evidence regarding Cultural Safety practices for Indigenous Peoples in acute care settings. DESIGN: This is a scoping review. METHODS: We searched six databases in consultation with a librarian experienced in health research. RESULTS: A total of 16 papers were included in the scoping review. Four main barriers to Cultural Safety in practice were identified; Among the included studies, only one quality improvement study reported an intervention, which improved culturally safe care. CONCLUSION: The four barriers identified each have a variable impact on Indigenous Peoples' health outcomes and are dependent upon the circumstances and experiences of both Indigenous Peoples and healthcare professionals.

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Contemporary Nurse

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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.

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Curriculum and pedagogy

Midwifery

Nursing

Indigenous Peoples

acute care settings

colonisation

cultural safety

delivery of healthcare

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Moloney, A; Stuart, L; Chen, Y; Lin, F, Healthcare professionals’ cultural safety practices for indigenous peoples in the acute care setting – a scoping review, Contemporary Nurse, 2023

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