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Health equity and cultural safety 

Practising in Aotearoa, New Zealand requires a continuing need to develop and provide culturally safe patient-centred care. This includes cultural dimensions such as age, gender, sexual orientation, religious or spiritual beliefs and a focus on improving health outcomes for Māori as tangata whenua.

Understanding cultural safety 

Reflect on your own cultural position, attitudes and biases to assist you develop a more culturally safe approach to patient care.

Interactive Hauora Māori resources available for members

A new suite of Hauora Māori training resources is now available for members.

There are five new interactive modules that focus on foundational language and tikanga principles of Te Ao Māori. The first of the modules is "An Introduction to Aotearoa - place names and mihimihi".

• An Introduction to Aotearoa - place names and mihimihi

  This module will provide you with the skills to pronounce place names correctly in Aotearoa and connect to the land by constructing your personal mihimihi
  Audio required
  Duration: 20 minutes

• Hui

  This module will provide you with the knowledge on how to run a hui following tikanga Māori principles.
  Audio required
  Duration: 10 minutes

• Kia Māori

  This module will provide you with the skills necessary to understand the connection between Māori language and culture, beliefs, and values and tips on how to gain confidence to engage and uphold and the importance of respecting Māori culture
  Audio required
  Duration: 15 minutes

• Kia Tika

  This module will provide you with the skills necessary to have an in-depth understanding of the history of the Māori language, recognise te Reo sound and confidently pronounce common language used throughout Aotearoa.
  Audio required
  Duration: 20 minutes

• Kia Rere

  This module will guide you through the steps of setting up your digital tools to engage authentically and correctly with te Reo Māori through your digital communications.
  Audio required
  Duration: 20 minutes

Cultural safety video resources

HSQC module one

MCNZ statement on cultural safety

HSQC module two

HSQC module three

Mihi 501 health professionals course - Continuing education provided by the University of Otago

The objective of the course is to support health practitioners to feel informed and confident in the development of Hauora Māori competencies, with a special focus on the application of the Hui Process and Meihana Model.

Please note, the 2021 Mihi 501 course if full. View other courses offered by the University of Otago.

Disability Equity – new e-learning module available now
 
The 3DHB Disability Strategy Team from Capital and Coast, Hutt Valley and Wairarapa District Health Boards launched a new e-learning module earlier this year. Disability Equity is being offered on LearnOnline.health.nz to ensure disability equity is nationally consistent and aligned with international expectations. All members are encouraged to take this module, which has three separate topics - Disability Explained, Engaging with Disabled People, and Working with Disabled People.

Cultural safety online resources 

• Learning and education modules on understanding bias in healthcare
• Quiz: Understanding bias in healthcare 
• Quiz: Understand bias in healthcare 
• Training modules: Diversity Works NZ
• Harvard implicit bias test
• Why cultural safety rather than cultural competence 

Cultural competence resources

The College CPD team have compiled some resources to help you develop your knowledge and skills, to enhance your cultural competence.

College produced cultural competence resources 

Cultural competence framework                  Cultural competence quick pullout

                             
                                             

External online courses

Understanding health equity