Awareness of Surgical Nurses Regarding Pain Assessment and Management (Suggested Nursing Guidelines) | ||||
| Assiut Scientific Nursing Journal | ||||
| Article 18, Volume 7, Issue 16, March 2019, Page 157-165 PDF (919.15 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/asnj.2019.61534 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Seham Mohamed Sayed1; Shalabia El-Sayed Abo Zead2; Mahmoud Thabet Ayoub3; Amna Abdullah Desouky4 | ||||
| 1B.SC. Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt | ||||
| 2Professor, Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. | ||||
| 3Lecturer of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt | ||||
| 4Lecturer, Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Pain considers a typical sign for every patient before & after surgery, nurses have an essential part in pain assessment and its management; therefore, they ought to have a solid foundation toward it. Aims: were to identify nurses’ awareness regarding pain assessment and management and design nursing guidelines regarding pain assessment and management. Research design: descriptive research design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting: The study was conducted in the surgical departments of Assiut University Hospital & Elazhar University Hospital. Sample: Eighty nurses were working in the surgical departments of the above mentioned hospitals. Tools: Interview pain awareness questionnaire. Results: (93.8%) of surgical nurses had poor awareness regarding pain assessment and management. Conclusion: Most of the surgical nurses had poor awareness regarding pain assessment and its management for surgical patients. Recommendation: Nurses need for in-service training programs and refreshing courses to improve their knowledge which will reflect on their practice while working with those patients | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Awareness; Pain Assessment And Management & Surgical Nurses | ||||
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