ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the concepts of culture, race and ethnicity. Cultural safety relates to the experience of the recipient of nursing service and extends beyond cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity. It provides consumers of nursing services with the power to comment on practices and contribute to the achievement of positive health outcomes and experiences. Organizations such as National Health Service (NHS) Trusts have equality and diversity policies which ensure that all patients, regardless of culture, are afforded equal care. Conflict theories view race relationships as part of an ongoing struggle between the dominant and subordinate groups in society. This creates racial conflict where they experience racism, which, according to Dobson, is 'a mixed form of prejudice and discrimination directed at ethnic groups other than one's own'. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) noted that: Ethnicity results from many aspects of difference which are socially and politically important in the UK.
