Cultural Competence in Healthcare Course
Develop essential cultural competence for healthcare settings. Master communication, documentation, and consent in emergency departments, collaborate effectively with interpreters, support Indigenous and multicultural patients, and tackle legal and ethical issues to ensure safer, more respectful care delivery.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
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What will I learn?
This course provides practical skills for enhancing cross-cultural communication, documentation, and consent processes in busy clinical environments. Participants will learn to collaborate with interpreters, honour Indigenous and family-based decision-making, address legal and ethical challenges, and utilise tools, templates, and organisational resources to deliver safer, more respectful, and inclusive patient care.
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Develop skills
- Adapt verbal, nonverbal, and interpreter communication for culturally safe emergency department interactions.
- Conduct rapid cultural assessments using targeted templates for history-taking and triage.
- Deliver Indigenous-inclusive care by respecting traditions and facilitating shared decision-making.
- Handle multicultural ethics through proper documentation of consent, privacy, and boundaries on cultural requests.
- Advocate at the system level to enhance protocols for interpreters, gender-concordant care, and family involvement.
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