"Having the compass-drawing the map": Exploring nurses' management of pain and other discomforts during use of analgosedation in intensive care.

Nurses seem to attend adequately to patient pain, but the approach to discomforts other than pain appears unsystematic and haphazard. More explicit goals of care and strategies to handle discomfort as distinct from pain are needed. More research is needed to identify effective comfort measures for ICU patients.