About the event

NSW Sydney Region has partnered with the Nursing Regulation Faculty to host a collaborative webinar on Nursing Regulation and Cultural Safety. This presentation explores the cultural safety of nursing regulators when responding to complaints surrounding the nursing care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, families and/or communities. Using a case study approach, the challenges for the nursing profession, and its regulation, towards cultural safety are discussed.

Key Learning Objectives

• Critically reflect upon the nursing profession’s pathways towards cultural safety
• Explore the ways in which nursing regulation can uphold and enable cultural safety
• Examine ways in which racism is embedded within health care

About the speaker

Dr Bethne Hart MACN - Team Leader Mental Health Programs, Honeysuckle Health

Bethne is a mental health nurse and sociologist, and the immediate past President of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, NSW. Her academic career pathway has included the School of Nursing (University of Notre Dame Australia), and in nursing and health sociology at the University of Newcastle (NSW). Bethne’s clinical career pathway includes mental health nursing and psychotherapies, palliative care, rural remote health, digital primary health care, psycho-oncology, and Aboriginal health. She has implemented and co-ordinated a nurse-led transdisciplinary mental health therapy unit. Her research projects include cultural safety, gender safety, moral competence, trauma informed care, and the Mental Health First Aid (MHFA program). She has been actively involved in the regulation of the nursing profession over many years, at state and national levels, promoting safe and trusted health care based on social justice principles. Her current workplace is Honeysuckle Health, leading mental health programs.