What are the barriers and enablers to emergency department nurses' management of patients' pain?

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What are the barriers and enablers to emergency department nurses' management of patients' pain?

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BACKGROUND Pain is the most common presentation to the Emergency Department (ED) and ranked as the highest reason for seeking emergency care. Patients expect rapid pain relief when presenting to the ED and this expectation is often not met in many EDs worldwide resulting in oligoanalgesia; the phenomenon of failure to recognise or properly treat pain. Despite great improvements in available pain management strategies and tools for pain assessment, it has been noted that there are still barrie...

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Research paper

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2012

Creator

Pretorius, Annatjie

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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6536

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New Zealand / emergency nurses / emergency departments (EDs) / pain management / pain assessment / oligoanalgesia / barriers / surveys / Health sciences / Nursing / Acute care

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