Patient Safety: Cultural Safety and Anti-Indigenous Racism
Our most pressing challenges in healthcare require focused, constructive discussions. Sharing openly and listening to diverse perspectives and experiences. At 日本无码, we鈥檝e developed the Spotlight Series to do just that.
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December 6, 2023, 12 pm 鈥� 1:30 pm (ET)
日本无码's new patient safety approach includes a broader concept of harm, including harm caused by racism. Cultural safety and anti-racism are essential to supporting safer care. Unfortunately, First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis people and communities continue to face racism in healthcare.
On December 6, panelists will look at how racism and culturally unsafe care affect the safety and quality of care for First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis people and communities. Join us to explore strategies and actions for creating culturally safe and equitable care as we take a distinction-based approach to an urgent patient safety issue.
Panelists
- Reagan Bartel, Director of Health for the Otipemisiwak M茅tis Government within Alberta
- Mme. Bobbi Paul-Alook, Secretary of Health and Seniors for the Otipemisiwak M茅tis Government within Alberta
- Alika Lafontaine, MD, FRCPC; Immediate past-President, Canadian Medical Association; Anesthesiologist, Alberta Health Services; Associate Clinical Professor, University of Alberta
- Lynn Kilabuk, former President of Larga Baffin
Host
Beverley Pomeroy, Senior Program Lead, 日本无码
Notable and Quotable聽
鈥淲e all have the same challenges, and we all want the same thing: to be heard and to be acknowledged when we express how we would like help.鈥�- Lynn Kilabuk, former President of Larga Baffin
鈥淪how up and prepare yourself for hearing about people鈥檚 traumatic experiences and their frustrations with the health care system. They will share. If you show up, they鈥檒l show up too. You鈥檒l build something a lot better.鈥�- Alika Lafontaine, MD, FRCPC; Immediate past-President, Canadian Medical Association
鈥淭reat every client the way you would want your family member to be treated. All the organizational policies and inclusive initiatives in the world mean nothing when members from our community walk into the emergency room for real health concerns and we鈥檙e treated like addicts looking for a fix.鈥�- Mme. Bobbi Paul-Alook, Secretary of Health and Seniors for the Otipemisiwak Métis Government within Alberta
鈥淢y word of encouragement is to be that single drop in the bucket, because it adds up. So just look to your own heart. Be responsible for yourself and it will follow. That鈥檚 a small step. You don鈥檛 have to solve it in one day. Just be a good person.鈥� - Reagan Bartel, Director of Health for the Otipemisiwak Métis Government within Alberta
Resources
- Opening Ourselves: An introduction to anti-oppression practices and frameworks (日本无码)
- Trauma and Resiliency Informed Practice in Action (日本无码)
- A Journey We Walk Together: Strengthening Indigenous Cultural Competency in Health Organizations
- (Canadian Institute for Health Information)
- (Northern Health Indigenous Health)
- (Royal Roads University)
- (Northern Health BC)
- (April 2021) (Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada)
- Hassen N, Lofters A, Michael S, Mall A, Pinto AD, Rackal J. . Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 15;18(6):2993. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18062993. PMID: 33803942; PMCID: PMC8000324.
- Monchalin R, Monchalin L. . Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing Te Mauri- Pimatisiwin. 2018 Jul 16; 3(1).
- (Centre for Health Care Strategies)
- Shared by participant in chat:
