Cultural awareness and safety considers and respects the cultural identity, values and lived experience of people accessing your service, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. These values and experiences may differ from your own.

What will you learn, and why is it important?

This introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural awareness with a chiropractic practice context aims to improve the cultural awareness of Chiropractors and extend their knowledge about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture. It will explore how attitudes and values can influence perceptions, assumptions and behaviours in a clinical setting, and discuss keyways that chiropractors and the practice team can be more culturally aware.
 
Ensuring your practice is culturally safe is also essential to increasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples access to health services and ultimately closing the gap.

As health professionals, the Ahpra Code of Conduct requires practitioners to support good practice and the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including cultural safety. This course will support culturally safe practice and is included as CPD eligible education.