Indigenous Cultural Safety
Systemic racism and discrimination towards First Nations and Aboriginal people continues to be a significant barrier to accessing healthcare in many communities across Canada.
Solutions Staffing Inc commits to making our healthcare system more culturally safe for First Nations and Aboriginal people through the facilitation of information, education and training. All employees of Solutions Staffing Inc (Travelnurse.ca) are encouraged to take the following steps towards cultural safety and humility:
- Pledge your commitment to cultural safety and humility here
- Complete the online San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety course
- Watch the 12-part Cultural Safety and Cultural Humility Action Series hosted by the First Nations Health Authority and BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
- Participate in ICS Collaborative Learning Series
Cultural Safety & Humility Definitions
CULTURAL SAFETY
Cultural safety is an outcome based on respectful engagement that recognizes and strives to address power imbalances inherent in the healthcare system. It results in an environment free of racism and discrimination, where people feel safe when receiving health care.
CULTURAL HUMILITY
Cultural humility is a process of self-reflection to understand personal and systemic biases and to develop and maintain respectful processes and relationships based on mutual trust. Cultural humility involves humbly acknowledging oneself as a learner when it comes to understanding another’s experience.
SYSTEMIC RACISM
Also known as structural or institutional racism, systemic racism is enacted through societal systems, structures and institutions in the form of “requirements, conditions, practices, policies or processes that maintain and reproduce avoidable and unfair inequalities across ethnic/racial groups” (Paradies et al., 2008). Systemic racism is not only enacted proactively in efforts that create racialized inequality, but also in the failure by those in power (e.g. policymakers, funders) to redress such inequalities (Reading, 2013). It is commonly manifested in social exclusion and isolation that limits or prevents political and economic participation, or access to and participation in other social systems such as education and health (Reading, 2013).
Our Pledge
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Ryan – Office Manager
“My commitment to cultural safety and humility is to build strong communities and empower individuals.”
Dodie – Client Services Specialist
“I commit to action with care and compassion with those around me…my vision is one of inclusiveness and tolerance and understanding”
Bee – Client Services Specialist
” My commitment to cultural safety and humility is to empower others to spread the word! We can all learn and engage TOGETHER”
Tyla – Client Services Specialist
“My commitment to cultural safety and humility is to respect, to understand and to always be learning.”
Linda – Clinical Coordinator
“My commitment to cultural safety and humility is cultural respect.”
Shayla – Recruitment Specialist
“My commitment to cultural safety and humility is to always have an open heart and treat everyone with compassion.”
McKenna – Recruitment Specialist
“My Commitment to cultural safety and humility is being open minded, open to learning and open to asking questions.”
Manmeet – Human Resources Generalist
“My commitment to cultural safety and humility is respect and equality for all.”
Margaret – Human Resources Generalist
“I commit to help create a safe and respectful environment in the workplace”
Casey – Human Resources Specialist
“My vision of cultural humility and cultural safety within the health system includes respectful relationships.”
Anchal – Human Resources Specialist
“My commitment to cultural safety and humility is learning that strength lies in difference, not in similarities.”
Bree – Payroll Specialist
“My commitment to cultural safety and humility is to listen, acknowledge and respect.”
Nicole – Payroll Specialist
“My commitment to cultural safety and humility is to be judgement free.”
Micaelin – Payroll Specialist
“My commitment to cultural safety and humility is empowering one another.”
Kaitin – Travel Coordinator
“My commitment to cultural safety and humility is showing respect and understanding to all cultures and ways of life.”
Jeff and Sandra Shannon – Chief Operating Officers
“Our commitment to cultural safety and humility is to foster meaningful, engaged and equal relationships”
Required Courses for All Employees
San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training
Additional Learning
FNHA – Cultural Safety and Cultural Humility Webinars
Setting the Context for Indigenous Cultural Safety: Facing Racism in Health
Racism and Privilege in the Everyday
The “Raced” Body: Reflecting on Clinical Encounters
Racism, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Cultural Safety
Deconstructing Racism Strategies for Organisational Change
Critical Race Theory and its Implication for Indigenous Cultural Safety
Indigenous Health Equity: Examining Racism as an Indigenous Social Determinant of Health
Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in Health Care: Strategies for Implementing System-level Change
Cultural Safety in the Classroom: Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in Education Settings
Racism Hurts: Exploring the Health Impacts of Anti-Indigenous Racism