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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Safer Healthcare for Australia's First Peoples
Griffith University
This online course introduced five cultural capabilities required by healthcare practitioners to work effectively with Australia's First Peoples. It examined connections between colonisation and contemporary health issues and explored strength-based strategies to improve client outcomes and lead workplace change. Learners covered topics relating to white privilege, cultural humility, therapeutic rapport, reflective practice and cultural safety.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Roianne West
Director of First Peoples Health Unit
Griffith University
Professor Gregory Phillips
Professor of First Peoples Health
Griffith University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the five cultural capabilities required by health and human services workers to deliver culturally safe care.
- Explore Australia’s First Peoples’ knowledges including ways of knowing, ways of being and ways of doing.
- Engage in culturally safe communication with Australia’s First Peoples.
- Apply a strengths-based, best practice approach to First Peoples’ healthcare, recognising the whole health system is responsible.
- Reflect on your own culture and biases and identify how this may influence your perceptions and interactions with First Peoples.
- Contribute to social change by advocating for equitable outcomes and social justice for First Peoples.
Syllabus
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An introduction to the five cultural capabilities required by health and human services workers, including:
- Respect: recognising and respecting the diversity of First Peoples’ cultures and the impact of history on First Peoples’ contemporary health status.
- Communication: learning how to build respectful relationships and partnerships by communicating in a culturally safe way.
- Safety and quality: exploring best practice approaches to promote culturally and clinically safe healthcare.
- Reflection: reflecting on the influence of your cultural identity and the impact of racism, stereotypes and power relations on culturally and clinically safe healthcare.
- Advocacy: learning the importance of promoting and advocating for equity, human rights and social change for Australia’s First Peoples to support improvements in health outcomes.
Issued on 20th December 2018
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