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Addressing Bias
Week 3: Addressing Bias Paper Personal biases by healthcare providers are detrimental to the delivery of care and a significant factor in the prevalence of health disparities in America.
Biases manifest in different areas of nursing including clinical practice, education and policy making. Personal biases in hospice care settings hinder the nurse in establishing a trusting relationship with the patient and his or family and the delivery of holistic care. Palliative care patients have complex and unique needs associated with serious chronic illnesses.
These patients have to deal with the stress and frustration caused by the debilitating conditions, breaking news and being asked to make major life decisions. Therefore, the patients are disproportionately vulnerable to the emotional and psychological effects of personal biases by hospice nurses (CAPC, 2017). Furthermore, the sustained experience of bias by palliative care patients as they move through the system diminishes their ability to establish trusting relationships with the hospice care teams in the high-stress care setting.
I have a bias regarding the ability of elderly and chronically ill patients to make valid decisions regarding their care. I assume that they are afraid of moving into a hospice care facility regardless of their situation. Often, when I see an elderly patient who is accompanied by his or her adult child to the hospice care,
I discuss the palliative care options for the patient with the child and request the child to convince the parent to consider moving into a hospice care facility. The strategy for reducing my bias will involve three steps. First, I will introduce myself to the patient first before introducing m………
