Pain assessment and interventions by nurses in the emergency department: A national survey.
Wayne VarndellMargaret Fry FryDoug ElliottPublished in: Journal of clinical nursing (2020)
While pain management is the responsibility of all healthcare professionals, in the emergency department, it is a core role of emergency nursing. This study highlights the variation in ability to nurse-initiate analgesia, level of acute pain knowledge, education and training, and use of validated pain assessment instruments to guide pain management in critically ill intubated patients.
Keyphrases
- pain management
- emergency department
- chronic pain
- healthcare
- end stage renal disease
- mental health
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- liver failure
- public health
- quality improvement
- prognostic factors
- physical activity
- primary care
- patient reported outcomes
- neuropathic pain
- hepatitis b virus
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- aortic dissection