Cultural safety strategies for rural Indigenous palliative care: a scoping review.
Kaela SchillSusana CaxajPublished in: BMC palliative care (2019)
Culturally safe strategies invite decolonization of care through awareness of colonialism, racism, and discrimination. They invite commitment to building partnerships, power sharing, and decision-making in the delivery of care. Culturally competent activities may catalyze the adoption of a cultural safety framework; however, mislabeling of cultural competency as cultural safety may contribute to organizational inaction and a watering down of the spirit of cultural safety.