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Week 4 Discussion 1: Biases in Care of Persons Who Are Different Than Ourselves
Value: 100 points
Due: In an effort to facilitate scholarly discourse, create your initial post by Day 3 and reply to at least two of your classmates, on two separate days, by Day 7.
Grading Category: Discussions
Initial Post
There are many different populations and groups we care for as nurses who are different than ourselves. For example, there are persons we care for who do not speak our language, do not share our religious values and beliefs and who deal with pain different than ourselves.
As nurses we have implicit and explicit biases that influence and impact how we care for diverse patient populations. For example, as a nurse, we would not withhold pain medication from a patient because they were from a different cultural background than us. However, the research indicates that black patients are given less pain medication than other patients.
This discussion focuses on the need to be certain our patients of diverse backgrounds and populations understand every communication. Due to language differences and the need for culturally linguistic care, the patients are in unsafe situations and could be detrimental.
Describe strategies you currently use to provide safe and effective patient care with positive patient outcomes. How could you influence the policies and nursing practice to enhance cultural patient assessment and to improve patient outcomes for diverse patient populations who speak different languages?
Reply Posts
When replying to two peers, please review their experience and offer suggestions to enhance their experience. Use two references each in your response to your peers.
Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.