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Cultural safety: Implementing the concept

Abstract:

In July 1993 there was a minor media explosion as the notion of cultural safety in nursing education hit the national newspaper headlines, the television news and the radio talkback circuits. ...Like all issues in which Maori are involved, there is a large race relations component in cultural safety. Race relations issues are usually controversial and therefore newsworthy. This increases the potential sales of newspapers and attracts advertisers to prime time television and talkback radio and sustains the news business. the combination of Maori and nurses was particularly interesting to the New Zealand public since most people have some contact with nurses or midwives during their lives and everybody has an opinion about nurses and certainly about race relations.

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colonialism, cultural safety, Maori, public perception of nurses and midwives