<P> Cultural safety can be defined as the effective nursing practice of a person or family from another culture that is determined by that person or family (from Nursing Council of New Zealand, Guidelines for Cultural Safety, the Treaty of Waitangi and Māori Health in Nursing Education and Practice, 2011, p. 7). Its origins are in nursing education and a culture can range anywhere from age or generation, gender, sexual orientation, occupation, religious beliefs, or even disabilities . An unsafe cultural practice is an action that demeans the cultural identity of a particular person or family . Cultural safety also has four different principles . The first one aims to improve health status and well - being of New Zealanders because the concept originated in New Zealand; on the other hand, the second one improves the delivery of health services . The third one focuses on the differences among the people who are being treated and accepting those differences . The fourth principle focuses on understanding the power of health services and how health care impacts individuals and families . </P> <P> Cultural Safety has its origins in the field of nursing education . The concept originated at a nursing leadership hui in 1989 after concerns were raised by Māori nursing students about the safety of Māori students in monocultural nursing schools and of Māori intellectual property when taught by tauiwi . </P>

Nursing council of nz guidelines for cultural safety