Nurses' perspectives of pain assessment and management in dementia care in hospital.
Yvette I-Pei TsaiGraeme BrowneKerry Jill InderPublished in: Australasian journal on ageing (2022)
Pain tools are preferably used as a complementary method in addition to nurses' intuitional judgement. Reporting pain via scores requires a more complete narrative description from the source of pain reports to allow clinicians to accurately report a persons' pain. Clinicians must minimise trial-and-error practice in analgesia by conducting comprehensive pain assessments. Health-care organisations need to foster timely collaboration between clinicians to support nurses' practice limitations for effective analgesia administration in dementia care.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- pain management
- chronic pain
- neuropathic pain
- palliative care
- mental health
- quality improvement
- primary care
- postoperative pain
- clinical trial
- mild cognitive impairment
- randomized controlled trial
- spinal cord
- cognitive impairment
- spinal cord injury
- study protocol
- ultrasound guided
- social media
- electronic health record
- affordable care act
- acute care