Pain management knowledge of hospital-based nurses in a rural Appalachian area
| Autor: | Jolene M Simon, Janet Hardy Boettcher, Karen E Kubecka |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Cross-sectional study Substance-Related Disorders media_common.quotation_subject Hospitals Rural MEDLINE Pain Nursing Staff Hospital Hospitals Urban Surveys and Questionnaires Health care medicine Humans General Nursing media_common Appalachian Region business.industry Addiction Incidence (epidemiology) Middle Aged Analgesics Opioid Cross-Sectional Studies Opioid Family medicine Physical therapy Educational Status Female Knowledge deficit business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of advanced nursing. 23(5) |
| ISSN: | 0309-2402 |
| Popis: | The American Pain Society cites the failure of health care providers to routinely assess pain and pain relief as the most common reason for unrelieved pain in US hospitals. Lack of knowledge on the part of nurses about pain and its treatment is one of the major barriers to achieving comfort for those in pain. Thus, the purpose of this descriptive study was to determine the pain management knowledge of hospital-based nurses in a rural Appalachian area. The nonpurposive sample consisted of 123 registered nurses. The questionnaire consisted of three sections: demographic items and two instruments designed to measure knowledge of opioid classification and pain management. The overall pain management knowledge score was 67.4%. The findings indicate a knowledge deficit specifically related to the behavioural indicators of pain, classification of opioid analgesics, properties of opioid analgesics and adjuvant medications, and incidence of addiction. This sample of rural nurses demonstrates similar pain management knowledge compared to the reported scores of urban nurses. These results may serve as the impetus to develop strategies to decrease the barriers to effective pain management. Further education about pain management is warranted. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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