Knowledge of ‘pain assessment and management’ among nurses caring for children in Erbil hospitals

العناوين الأخرى

معارف تقييم و معالجة الألم لدى الممرضات اللواتي يعتنون بالأطفال في مستشفيات أربيل

المؤلفون المشاركون

Shakir, Nurhan Zaki
Uthman, Nizar Ramadan

المصدر

Duhok Medical Journal

الناشر

جامعة دهوك كلية الطب

تاريخ النشر

2012-12-31

دولة النشر

العراق

عدد الصفحات

8

التخصصات الرئيسية

الطب البشري

الملخص الإنجليزي

Background: Relieving pain has always been an essential part of the nurse caring role.

Many agree that, despite all the information available to nurses, current guidelines and standards are not used consistently in the care of children’s pain.

A lack of knowledge about pain assessment may mean that nurses are unable to assess pain accurately and thus unable to apply their knowledge in practice.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate knowledge of pain assessment and management among nurse’s caring for children in Erbil City.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at 3 Hospitals in Erbil /Iraq in 2011.

A purposive sample of (60) nurses who were caring for children were included.

Researchers adapted the questionnaire format developed by Renee Manworren for assessment of Pediatric Nurses’ knowledge regarding pain (PNKASShriners revision 2002).This is consisted of two parts, Part 1 included a list of (6) items covered Sociodemographic variables and Part 2 included a list of (19) items testing nurses knowledge regarding children’s pain assessment and management.

Results: Results of the study revealed that majority of nurses were females with more than five years of experience, and lacked knowledge of pain assessment and management.

There was no-significant relationship between nurse’s knowledge of pain assessment and management in children and their demographic characteristics.

Conclusions: Nurses caring for children in Erbil City have insufficient knowledge regarding pain assessment and management, which is related to lack of emphasis topics regarding pain in within the educational curricula.

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أوراق مؤتمرات

رقم السجل

BIM-832012

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