Assignment task: Valuing the Meaning of Pain
1. Interview your patient and ask them to share a time when they experienced pain and somebody did not believe them.
- How did this make you feel?
- What was the outcome?
- What can nurses do to support patients in pain? Want Online Tutoring?
2. Please self-reflect on the following questions:
- What lessons from that interview, if any, can you apply to your nursing practice?
- Describe a time somebody claimed to have pain and you did not believe them.
- What factors influenced this belief?
- Did you later change your mind about your belief?
- What lessons from that experience, if any, can you apply to your nursing practice?