Introduction
The fact that Canada is a multicultural society makes hard to practise cultural safety in nursing, only for it to be compounded by the brain-drain of nursing professionals to other countries like the United States. The foreign nurses that come to replace the local nurses have to get orientation training whose effectiveness is questionable. The creeping of corporate ideology into the medical world is further making it harder for them to care for the patients in a professional and humane manner, as will be expounded.
Concept of Cultural Safety in Nursing
Cultural safety is defined by Maori nurse leader as the recognition of shared respect, meaning, experience ...
