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ALTERNATIVE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 166-175Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/11771801221146787
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Aboriginals; cultural competent care; cultural safety; health care; health safety
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Cultural safety is a transformative approach to healthcare that aims to meet the needs and respect the identities of Indigenous peoples. This review identified three main professional roles for implementing cultural safety: supporting healthcare system navigation, enhancing service offerings, and building organizational capacity. These roles should be complementary and developed in partnership with Indigenous communities.
Cultural safety is a decolonizing and transformative approach to health care aimed at achieving health care that recognizes, respects and nurtures the needs, rights and identities of Indigenous peoples. Such a transformation requires new or radically reimagined professional roles. Based on a rapid review design, this synthesis aimed to identify fundamental characteristics of cultural safety interventions that involved the creation or transformation of professional roles. The 23 included studies presented three main categories of professional roles for cultural safety. These roles were focused on (a) supporting health care system navigation, (b) providing a new or improved service offering, and (c) building organizational capacity to provide culturally safe health care. Our results demonstrate that cultural safety can be implemented by key actors playing different roles at different levels of the health care organization. These roles should be viewed as complementary to one another and be defined and implemented in partnership with Indigenous partners.
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