Week 4 Narrative Journal: Respect, communication and Personal Bias
1. What do you think about the Nacirema culture?
Nacirema is totally different from any other culture and practices I have ever heard about. This culture considers human body as ugly therefore they have no respect for it. People in this culture treat their bodies poorly by insertion things in their mouths, baking women head in ovens. The Nacirema culture has a great consideration and trust in the medicine men that do nothing but torture the sick patients.
2. What if some of your patient's had similar beliefs? How would it impact your interactions?
Although I don’t agree with their beliefs I will still treat them as any other patient. I will interact with them in a nonjudgmental…show more content… How do you deal with differences in beliefs that you encounter in your patient situations?
In situation where my beliefs are different from my patients’, I try to remind myself that is not about me and my beliefs but about the patient. I tend to avoid religious conversations and give scientific opinion so that they don’t feel like I’m judging them. Another way I deal with that is politely change the subject related to religious or any others beliefs. I understand that there are different beliefs and as health care provider, I need to be respectful of my patient beliefs even when I don’t understand or agree with them.
4. When facing different beliefs, how do you demonstrate caring and compassion without compromising yourself and your beliefs?
As a healthcare provider, I need to respect my patient’s religious beliefs, dignity, will and wishes no matter what background they are coming…show more content… One bias I have seen in myself, is that I tend to base my interactions and decisions on patients’ past performances. For example I tend to expect less for patient who has shown lack of motivation or self-limiting behaviors in the past.
6- How have you dealt your biases?
I try to rely less on the information I get from others and approach those patients with an open mind.
7. How do you think they have impacted your interactions with that/ those patients?
Relying on these patients’ past motivation level from other healthcare providers is not a great way to start working with that particular patient. Every physical therapy patient has different motivation levels that need to be assessed and determined by the current
