PSY 3121 Lecture 10: Lecture 10
5 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Women and Medicine: Health Care
•Health Care and Women
-Persons diagnosed with chronic conditions by HCP (Stats Canada, 2015):
-Arthritis: Women: 4,210, Men: 2,607
-Cancer: Women: 510, Men: 253
-High Blood Pressure: Women: 4,812, Men: 2,508
-Persons diagnosed with chronic conditions: arthritis, cancer, high blood pressure.!
-women are about twice as likely to be diagnosed!
-women are more likely to seek out health care!
-symptoms are not as clear, misdiagnosed!
-make excuses (household first)
•Health Occupations by Gender
-“Health care is women’s work”; 4/5 paid HCP workers are women; mainly nurses.
-↑ Females in all HCPs.
-Men are majority dentists, dental techs, lab workers & EMTs.
•Health Care Professionals’ Perspectives
-Healthcare is more complex.
-Ongoing self-aware & reflective practice.
-important with complex patient cases & own negative emotional reaction
-Being open-minded, non-judgmental → Bracketing
-Specific professional ethics, oaths & codes of conduct
-Each profession has its own role & responsibilities, identity, culture & language.
-ie. Nursing student learning to talk to Doctor
-training in silos; more recent IP integration
-complex patient cases leads to more IP teamwork
•Nurse Sexualization
-Nurses have been sexualized for a long time (costumes, movies, posters).
-Results in bad representations and misrepresentations:
-ie. References in Songs (Pink: Just like a pill, Blink 182: Enema of the State)
-ie. Misrepresentation in TV shows & movies
•How do you deal with sexism and sexist comments, especially from patients?
-Context: portray of media, society & profession, patient’s condition (e.g., brain injury), gender,
age, work.
-Dress and act professionally to prevent (ie. name tag high, bend dressing check, dress
mature, wear a wedding band on ring finger).
-My reaction. Avoid extra attention: is it their personality or a test? “Pick your battles”:
appreciate compliment vs. condemn.
-Give them a warning.
-Uncomfortable cases: ask another to join you to prevent possible assault or, worse case,
request patient change.
•How do you deal with aging?
-Growing older adult population.
-Woman live longer than men = Most elderly are woman.
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Document Summary
Women and medicine: health care: health care and women. Persons diagnosed with chronic conditions by hcp (stats canada, 2015): Persons diagnosed with chronic conditions: arthritis, cancer, high blood pressure. Women are about twice as likely to be diagnosed. Women are more likely to seek out health care. Make excuses (household rst: health occupations by gender. Health care is women"s work ; 4/5 paid hcp workers are women; mainly nurses. Men are majority dentists, dental techs, lab workers & emts: health care professionals" perspectives. Important with complex patient cases & own negative emotional reaction. Speci c professional ethics, oaths & codes of conduct. Each profession has its own role & responsibilities, identity, culture & language. Ie. nursing student learning to talk to doctor. Complex patient cases leads to more ip teamwork: nurse sexualization. Nurses have been sexualized for a long time (costumes, movies, posters). Ie. references in songs (pink: just like a pill, blink 182: enema of the state)
