Indigenous Populations and Patients, Consideration in Anesthesia
Activity
e-Learning Module
e-Learning Module
Stereotypical thinking about Indigenous patients influences Indigenous patients experience with pain reporting. Pain can take many forms and creates multifaceted experiences for each person. Western medicine often focuses on “physical pain” without taking into account of how emotional pain may contribute - stress, perceptions, past experiences. Treating pain with pharmacological means should not be the primary focus in addressing pain - non pharmacological treatments can also address symptoms. Discussing pain history and acknowledging the influence of colonial factors on the pain experience of an Indigenous person is an important first step of the pain assessment.
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Objectives
Activity Objectives
- Identify unconscious bias and stereotypes about pain experiences of Indigenous patients.
- Explore colonial factors which can impact the expression and perception of pain in Indigenous populations in Canada.
- Increase awareness of the need to support alternative pain scale assessment tools.
- Enhance communication skills and awareness in pain assessments with Indigenous patients and their families.
Assessments
e-Learning Module Completion
Tags
Discipline
Indigenous Health
Longitudinal Discipline
Indigenous Health
Priority Groups
MCC Presentations
Indigenous Health
McMaster Program Competencies
1.7 Counsel and educate patients and their families to empower them to participate in their care and enable shared decision-making
2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
4.1 Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and sociocultural backgrounds
4.4 Demonstrate insight and understanding about emotions and human responses to emotions that allow one to develop and manage interpersonal interactions, including the ability to manage one’s own interpersonal responses
5.5 Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to a diverse patient population, including all dimensions of diversity such as those that are included in human rights legislation and federal and provincial law.
6.2 Identify aspects of the healthcare system that serve as barriers and enablers of providing healthcare to and optimizing the health of patients and the population
MeSH
Chronic Pain [C23.888.592.612.274]
Indigenous Canadians [M01.270.968.500.600.375]
Indigenous Canadians [M01.270.968.500.600.375]
Pain Measurement [E01.370.376.550.600]
Pain [C10.597.617]
