Cultural safety

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Cultural Safety is a nursing concept developed in New Zealand. It develops the idea that to provide quality care for people from different ethnicities than the mainstream, nurses must provide that care within the cultural values and norms of the patient. The concept is spreading to other fields of human services and to other areas of the world, particularly in areas with strong minorities of indigenous people in former European colonies.

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