Using cultural safety to enhance nursing care for people with a learning disability

Culture has an important role at every level of healthcare. It can have a significant effect on the interactions between nurses, other staff members in the multidisciplinary team, people with learning disabilities and their family members.

This article outlines the concept of cultural safety and how it can enable learning disability nurses to work more effectively with people with a learning disability and their families. The authors provide specific tools which learning disability nurses can use to ensure that they consider diversity when providing care, thereby enhancing healthcare outcomes.