Cultural Safety Training - Port Macquarie on Birpai Country

In the Healthy North Coast 2021 Community Survey, 32% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants said they stopped or delayed getting health care because they were unable to access culturally safe services. As Health Professionals, ensuring our practice is culturally safe is essential to increasing First Nation Peoples access to health services and in turn, closing the gap.

This Cultural Safety Training is a comprehensive series designed to increase local cultural awareness and develop practical skills to enable health professionals to deliver culturally safe healthcare to their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients on the North Coast.

Delivered in partnership with Ochre and Salt, the training will be delivered in three parts, combining both self-paced online and face-to-face learning.

• Consider Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences of health and illness.
• Explain the historical impact on contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
• Enhance confidence to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
• Evaluate your cultural safety practices and implement steps to provide culturally safe and acceptable healthcare to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
• Appraise the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural perspectives as individual and kinship structures and social determinants of health and wellbeing.

These self-paced eLearning modules, by Ochre and Salt, must be completed before attending the face-to-face workshop (Module 3).

Combined the modules will take approximately two and half hours to complete online.

The link will be provided to registered clinicians two weeks prior to the workshop.

Facilitated by Healthy North Coast:

• Hilton Naden - Senior Manager, First Nations and Population Health
• David Kelly - Reconciliation Action Plan Lead

A face-to-face cultural excursion that includes a cultural engagement workshop, catered morning tea and lunch, and on-Country cultural experience.

• 9:00am – 12:30pm – Cultural Safety Workshop
• 12:30pm – 2:00pm – On-Country Cultural Experience with Local Elder.

Primary Healthcare Professionals, such as GPs, practice nurses and allied health professionals wanting to increase the cultural safety in their practice only.

The training is RACGP and ACRRM accredited for 6.5 CPD Hours.

Cultural Safety events are delivered by Healthy North Coast and are funded through the North Coast PHN Program. Learn more at: hnc.org.au/education-networking

Register now to secure your spot.

Host or Publisher Healthy North Coast