Cultural Pain Assessment

Cultural Effect’s on pain assessment and management

Cultural diversity develops America; still it too poses much challenge for nurses. Currently, some of the populace in the United States speaks tongues other than English at home.

Nurses must become culturally competent and to learn to efficiently assess and manage the pain of patients who come from varied cultures and speak diverse languages.

People are cultural beings, and as such we are deeply influenced by each of the ethnic factions we fit into cultural, spiritual, terrestrial, socioeconomic, and so on. All of these groups influences the way we think and act by imparting in us both general and precise beliefs of how the world functions and how we should relate

Nurses must embrace this vital fact, in order to deliver patients with culturally adequate pain management. Nurses must also be conscious of the cultural patterns, for example, principles, morals, and behaviors that influence and guides their own and their patients' responses to pain. Moreover, it’s imperative not to stereotype patients by assuming that patient’s will adhere to a certain culture's typical pain patterns. Rather than trying to forge the pain philosophies and practices of particular ethnic groups, a nurse should consider the various ways in which culture influences how patients respond to and referred

Nurses, like their patients, learned about pain in youth. As part of the socialization practice, People learned the "customary" and "correct" ways to react to pain, which, in turn, taught individuals that other ways of reacting were "peculiar" or "incorrect." This tendency to feel that one's own ethnic norms are spot-on and to assess others' beliefs in light on them is ethnocentric.

Therefore, when a patient senses, communicates, or responds to pain in a way that doesn't fit to a nurse's beliefs or expectations, the nurse may consider the behavior unfitting or exasperating. Nurses need to learn that patients' diverse ethnic patterns mostly aren't correct or incorrect or usual or unusual, just different. Nurses need to first examine their own ethnic beliefs about pain and then question themselves, which of their behaviors are ethnic and which are upheld by indication to be superior. There are many factors that can complicate pain management. Amongst them are, Language and interpretation problems. Often, nurses fail to use interpreters when assessing patients who lack the ability to speak in English. Thus, without able interpretation, it's difficult to effectively assess pain and educate on pain