to recognize and understand the effects of culture on pain, perception, responses, and management
The culture chosen would be the chinese
These are the questions below needed to be answered.
1. Describe the different natures of pain (physical, emotional, etc.)
2. Describe the relationship between ethnic background and pain.
3. Discuss ethnic differences in pain perception and pain responses
4. Explain how a nurses own culture, personal bias, values and beliefs may alter the
interpretation of patients pain experience .
5. What might some variations be in assessment of pain when caring for the ethnic group
you chose? What are the verbal cues? What are the non-verbal cues?
6. Which pain assessment tool would you use? Why?
7. What might some variations of nursing interventions be in management of pain when
caring for the ethnic group you chose? Pharmaceutical: Traditional? Alternative? Interprofessional?
