The Remote Area Health Corps (RAHC) is excited to announce the launch of two new eLearning modules, Cultural Safety 1: Principles and Practice and Cultural Safety 2: Culturally Safe Health Care in Practice.
RAHC eLearning modules provide free high-quality, easy-to-access education on health and safety issues in the remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health context. These modules are available to all Health Professionals (HPs) and anyone interested in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. HPs considering a placement with RAHC are particularly encouraged to complete them.
About the modules:
Cultural Safety 1: Principles and Practice
This module explores cultural safety as an interdisciplinary and interprofessional practice model. The history, contention, criticisms of, and necessity for cultural safety are briefly discussed, along with topics of racism, white privilege, discrimination, and power.
The principles of cultural safety, including social justice, trust, respect, self-awareness, and self-reflection, are discussed to form the basis of and negotiate culturally safe practices. The need for robust partnerships negotiated with diverse groups of people to understand their needs is a component of cultural safety principles.
Cultural Safety 2: Culturally Safe Health Care in Practice
This module builds on Cultural Safety 1: Principles and Practice and allows participants to build on and further develop a range of strategies that enable them to practice safety in culturally diverse health service delivery environments. These strategies will include tools for effective communication and action plans for embedding cultural safety in professional health practice.
To learn more about RAHC's eLearning platform, visit our website.
To access Cultural Safety 1, click here.
To access Cultural Safety 2, click here.