HLTC02H3 Chapter Notes -Egalitarianism, Western Canada, Community Health Worker
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Week # 9: clinical encounters between nurses and first nations women in a western canadian. Ethnographic study explore the sociopolitical context of nurses encounters with first nations women in a western canadian hospital. Method: in-depth interviews, participant observation of clinical encounters involving first nations women and nurses. Four themes: relating across presumed cultural differences ; constructing the other, assumptions influencing clinical practice, and responding to routine patient requests. Finding demonstrate how discourses assumptions about aboriginal people, culture and presumed differences can influence routine clinical encounters. It is important to analyze these health encounters with respect wider sociopolitical and historical forces that give rise to racialization, culturalism and othering. Recent research suggests that the power relations within the doctor-patient relationship also influence nurse-patient relations, and these power differentials are magnified when gender, ethno cultural background and class are considered. Few studies on nurses clinical encounters and the dynamics of health care interactions with.
