Using Audio-Visual Simulation to Elicit Nursing Students ’ Noticing and Interpreting Skills to Assess Pain in Culturally Diverse Patients

Assessment and management of pain is a critical role for health care professionals. Although pain perception has been recognized as a multi-dimensional phenomenon, a one-size-fits-all mantra of ‘pain is whatever the patient says it is’ has prevailed. A number of biological, sociocultural, and communication differences contribute to pain perception and self-report, requiring nurses’ clinical reasoning to assess pain appropriately (Schiavenato& Craig,  2010). Globally, a range of cultural norms impact on pain expression and reporting (Orhan et al., 2018), necessitating greater consideration of factors that influence individual patient assessment.

Source: Clinical Simulation in Nursing - July 9, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Michelle A Kelly, Susan Slatyer, Helen Myers, Shelley Gower, Jaci Mason, Kathie Lasater Source Type: research