Friday 26 June 2015

Nurses experience feelings of disempowerment when caring for patients in severe pain

·         Protocols are required to enhance nurses’ lines of power when caring for patients in pain. This includes triggering a critical incidence when nurses struggle to control a patient's pain, thus mobilising senior medical staff and pain specialists to the patient's bedside.

·         Whether triggering a critical incidence in this context results in better pain care needs further evaluation.

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