Course Title: Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term2 2018

Course Code: HUSO5218C

Course Title: Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety

School: 174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science

Campus: City Campus

Program: C5365 - Diploma of Nursing

Course Contact: Jaye Keating

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4845

Course Contact Email: jaye.keating@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Course Coordinator - Louise Roberts

Teacher - Louise Roberts

louise.roberts@rmit.edu.au

 

 

 

Nominal Hours: 25

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this unit of competency

Course Description

The course describes the skills and knowledge required to identify Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety issues in the workplace, model cultural safety in own work practice, and develop strategies to enhance cultural safety.

This course applies to people working in a broad range of roles including those involved in direct client service, program planning, development and evaluation contexts.

 


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CHCDIV002 Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety

Element:

1. Identify cultural safety issues in the workplace

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Identify the potential impact of cultural factors on service delivery to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients

1.2 Identify critical issues that influence relationships and communication with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people

1.3 Establish key aspects of cultural safety in consultation with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people

1.4 Evaluate the extent to which cultural safety is integrated in own work and workplace

Element:

2. Model cultural safety in own work

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Ensure work practices are grounded in awareness of one’s own cultural bias

2.2 Reflect awareness of own and other cultures in work practices

2.3 Use communication techniques and work practices that show respect for the cultural differences of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people

2.4 Engage with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander interpreters and colleagues as cultural brokers, according to situation needs

Element:

3. Develop strategies for improved cultural safety

Performance Criteria:

3.1 Support the development of effective partnerships between staff, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and their communities

3.2 Identify and utilise resources to promote partnerships

3.3 Devise and document ways to support the delivery of services and programs that are culturally safe and encourage increased participation

3.4 Integrate strategies that encourage self-determination and community control in services and programs

Element:

4. Evaluate cultural safety strategies

Performance Criteria:

4.1 Agree outcomes against which cultural safety strategies can be measured

4.2 Involve Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people in evaluations

4.3 Evaluate programs and services against desired outcomes

4.4 Revise strategies based on evaluation with appropriate engagement of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people


Learning Outcomes


The critical learning for this course takes place in clinical placement within the health sector and within simulations in RMIT laboratories.

You will be instructed in skills through demonstration, modelling and role-play. Skills development is supported by lectures on theory and underpinning knowledge, classroom discussions, group work, research and reflective practice.

 

On completion of this course you should be able to:

  1. Identify cultural safety issues in the workplace

    1.1 Identify the potential impact of cultural factors on service delivery to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients

    1.2 Identify critical issues that influence relationships and communication with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people

    1.3 Establish key aspects of cultural safety in consultation with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people

    1.4 Evaluate the extent to which cultural safety is integrated in own work and workplace

  2. Model cultural safety in own work

    2.1 Ensure work practices are grounded in awareness of one’s own cultural bias

    2.2 Reflect awareness of own and other cultures in work practices

    2.3 Use communication techniques and work practices that show respect for the cultural differences of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people

    2.4 Engage with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander interpreters and colleagues as cultural brokers, according to situation needs

  3. Develop strategies for improved cultural safety

    3.1 Support the development of effective partnerships between staff, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and their communities

    3.2 Identify and utilise resources to promote partnerships

    3.3 Devise and document ways to support the delivery of services and programs that are culturally safe and encourage increased participation

    3.4 Integrate strategies that encourage self-determination and community control in services and programs

  4. Evaluate cultural safety strategies

    4.1 Agree outcomes against which cultural safety strategies can be measured

    4.2 Involve Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people in evaluations

    4.3 Evaluate programs and services against desired outcomes

    4.4 Revise strategies based on evaluation with appropriate engagement of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people


Details of Learning Activities

All learning activities you will undertake within the course are designed to provide you with the skills, knowledge and attitudes to perform to the standard expected in the health industry.

Face-to-face tutorials - introduce you to key concepts within the course.

Online learning - allows you to consolidate knowledge through further reading and activities.


Teaching Schedule

Session 1 - Topics:

  • Introduction to learning objectives
  • Introduction to assessment tasks including submission dates
  • Cultural protocols
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity
  • Flags
  • History: colonisation, land rights, stolen generation and apology.

Session 2 - topics:

  • Aboriginal culture:
    • the dreaming/the dreamtime , kinship & family, the role of the Elder, Cultural protocols, Men's and Women's business and health beliefs.

Session 3 - Topics:

  • Guest speaker - who will talk to you about what it is like being an Aboriginal Australian and raising awareness of Aboriginal issues.

Session 4 - Topics:

  • Cultural safety


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources

2018 Recommended Text:

Nil for this course.


Overview of Assessment

Assessment activities will occur throughout this course and feedback will be provided at regular intervals

 

Students must pass each of the following assessment tasks to demonstrate competency.

Assessment tasks

 

Assessment

Assessment 1

Assessment  Case Study

Assessment 2

Assessment  Research Assignment

                        

To be deemed competent you must demonstrate an understanding of all aspects required of the competency. Assessment methods have been designed to measure your achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over multiple tasks.


Assessment Tasks

Assessment task 1 - Online quiz

Due: on the final class room session for this course

Overview:

You are required to complete an online quiz that reflects the content of the class room sessions.  You will need to obtain a minimum of 20 out of 25 to be deemed satisfactory for this task.

Assessment task 2 - Case study and self-reflection

Due: 2 weeks after the final classroom session for this course.

You are required to review a case study and answer questions demonstrating your ability to self-reflect on your own culture and apply the knowledge you have developed through the course.


Assessment Matrix

 

Quiz

Case study

1.1 Identify the potential impact of cultural factors on service delivery to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients

Q9, 12

 

1.2 Identify critical issues that influence relationships and communication with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people

Q13, 14

Q1

1.3 Establish key aspects of cultural safety in consultation with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people

Q15, 16

 

1.4 Evaluate the extent to which cultural safety is integrated in own work and workplace

Q19, 20

 

2.1 Ensure work practices are grounded in awareness of one’s own cultural bias

 

Q2

2.2 Reflect awareness of own and other cultures in work practices

 

Q3

2.3 Use communication techniques and work practices that show respect for the cultural differences of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people

 

Q4

2.4 Engage with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander interpreters and colleagues as cultural brokers, according to situation needs

Q1

Q4

3.1 Support the development of effective partnerships between staff, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and their communities

Q1

 

3.2 Identify and utilise resources to promote partnerships

Q16

 

3.3 Devise and document ways to support the delivery of services and programs that are culturally safe and encourage increased participation

Q21

Q5

3.4 Integrate strategies that encourage self-determination and community control in services and programs

Q17, 21

 

4.1 Agree outcomes against which cultural safety strategies can be measured

Q23

 

4.2 Involve Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people in evaluations

Q18

 

4.3 Evaluate programs and services against desired outcomes

Q18, 22

 

4.4 Revise strategies based on evaluation with appropriate engagement of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people

Q21, 24

 

concept of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety in the community services and health context, and its relationship with:

  • cultural awareness
  • cultural competence

Q2, 3, 4

 

Knowledge evidence

legislative context for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety

Q5, 6, 7, 8, 9

 

the diversity of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultures

Q6, 7, 8

 

historical, social, political and economic issues affecting Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and their engagement with community services and health systems, including:

  • impact of European settlement
  • loss of land and culture
  • racism and discrimination
  • past and present power relations

Q9, 10, 11

 

own culture, western systems and structures and how these impact on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and their engagement with services

 

Q3

factors that contribute to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ill health and common diseases experienced by these groups of people:

impact of trauma on individuals’ ability for:

  • decision-making
  • communicating
  • understanding
  • retaining information

Q9, 17, 25

 

ways to involve Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people in the planning and delivery of services and programs

Q21

Q6

Other Information

Please refer to the RMIT student page for extensive information about study support, assessments, extensions, appeals and a range of other matters:

http://www1.rmit.edu.au/students

Special consideration:

Use the special consideration process if your circumstances are such that you cannot fulfill assessment requirements.  For example, if you are unable to complete any piece of assessment by a due date, you will need to apply for an extension.

Re submissions:

You are permitted to have a maximum of 2 re-submissions for this course, however, each individual assessment may only be resubmitted once.  Re submissions are not automatic and will only be approved at the discretion of the program coordinator after consultation with the teacher.

All re submissions must be completed and submitted no more than 7 days after your work as been assessed.

Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

RMIT has a strict policy on plagiarism and academic integrity.  Please refer to: http://www1.rmit.edu.au/students/academic-integrity for more information.

Attendance

You are required to attend all sessions in order to engage in the required learning activities and ensure the maximum opportunity to gain competency.

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