An exploration surrounding cultural safety evidence submitted to meet self-assessment within a Professional Development and Recognition Programme in New Zealand

This study describes the surrounding research to answer what evidence is submitted to meet the cultural safety competency within self-assessment examples in a New Zealand Professional Development and Recognition Programme for nurses. The Nursing Council of New Zealand in essence, define cultural safety as a broad-based concept encompassing the uniqueness of humans as being determined by a multitude of factors combined. The Nursing Council of New Zealand outline that cultural safety is not solely ethnicity-based and present the concept of power, including how power should be professionally respected through self-reflection. In review of the literature, the researcher found the international interpretation of cultural safety and cultural competence are often not in line with the New Zealand definition as outlined by the Nursing Council of New Zealand. This is partly because of differing educational models utilised internationally, particularly at undergraduate level. New Zealand is identified in much of the literature internationally as leading the way regarding cultural safety education and in its decision to place cultural safety as a core competency. These findings signalled a potential for nurses to review cultural safety internationally and provide a consistent definition. Utilising a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework, the themes which emerged from this research were discovered through extracting the forces of power from the historical and political happenings relating to cultural safety within Professional Development Recognition Programmes. These themes were utilised as characterisations for the textual analysis component of the CDA. The emergent understanding of cultural safety from the nurses’ excerpts from practice highlighted a continuing level of misinterpretation regarding cultural safety as a solely ethnicity-based concept. A need for strengthening cultural safety education post registration was identified to enhance stronger reflection on nurses’ own practice and recognise the potential for one’s own influences to impact on individual health consumers care.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Health Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Grantor

Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT)

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Fogarty, Richelle

• New Zealand
• nurses
• cultural competence
• cultural safety
• self-assessment
• Professional Development and Recognition Programme (PDRP)
• nursing education
• discourse analysis

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• All rights reserved

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6051

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:null:10652/6051