Pain Management Nurses' Roles During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Autor: Sowicz TJ; The University of Arizona College of Nursing, Tucson, Arizona. Electronic address: sowicz@email.arizona.edu., Knisely MR; Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina., Booker SQ; University of Florida College of Nursing, Gainesville, Florida., Bai J; Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Atlanta, Georgia., Saravanan A; Northern Illinois University School of Nursing, DeKalb, Illinois., Marie BS; The University of Iowa College of Nursing, Iowa City, Iowa.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses [Pain Manag Nurs] 2022 Feb; Vol. 23 (1), pp. 9-16. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Oct 02.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmn.2021.09.006
Abstrakt: Background: Millions of people globally have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. It's impact on pain management nurses roles' remains unknown.
Aims: To explore role changes among pain management nurses performing patient care during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Design: Qualitative descriptive research study.
Settings: The American Society for Pain Management Nursing's listserv, E-News Brief postings, and snowball sampling.
Participants/subjects: English-speaking registered nurses or advanced practice registered nurses who provided direct patient care since 2020 were eligible.
Method: Data were collected through individual, semi-structured telephone interviews. An interview guide was used and included questions about participants' characteristics and the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on their roles in clinical work. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis.
Results: A homogenous sample of eighteen nurses from the United States was interviewed. Their normal roles, roles during the pandemic, and surges in patients with Covid-19 as the condition for role changes emerged from their descriptions. Most participants did not experience significant changes in their normal roles, but all described how their normal functions were impacted by the pandemic.
Conclusions: As the infectious variants of this disease evolve or other disastrous conditions occur, further changes to roles may occur. The skill sets of pain management nurses, including understanding assessment of pain across the lifespan, administration of opioids and multimodal analgesia, monitoring of patients, and communicating by educating and consultations, reinforce the significant contribution pain management nurses have as valued team members in times of crisis.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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