Culture's Effects on Pain Assessment and Management

2010/04/01 by Mary Curry Narayan · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Medicine · #Cultural Competency in Health Care #Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues #Innovations in Medical Education

paper · doi:10.1097/01.naj.0000370157.33223.6d

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Abstract

In Brief OVERVIEW: Minority patients are at high risk for poor pain outcomes. When patients belong to a culture or speak a language that's different from that of their health care provider, the provider faces additional challenges in successfully assessing and managing the patients' pain. This article describes how and why culture affects both patients and nurses. It also discusses why members of cultural minority groups frequently receive suboptimal pain management and how nurses can improve patients' pain outcomes by using culturally sensitive assessments and providing culturally comfortable care. Nurses can improve patients' pain outcomes by using culturally sensitive assessments and providing culturally comfortable care.

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