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1760801

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-2-12
pubmed:abstractText
Pain management is intimately linked to decision making. Nurses play a key role in making decisions regarding pain and its management. This paper presents data from a preliminary study (N = 53) extending the investigators' pain research into the areas of clinical decision making and ethical dilemmas related to pain management. Nurses completed surveys focused on actual experiences of caring for patients in pain. The results identify common clinical decisions related to pain, barriers to providing optimum pain relief, and ethical/professional conflicts in pain management. Decisions related to the amount of pain intensity, when to give medications, and choice of analgesics. Nurses identified verbal and nonverbal cues central to their decisions regarding pain assessment. Barriers to effective pain management included physician knowledge and cooperation, patient/family knowledge and cooperation, as well as nursing knowledge and time. Respondents identified ethical dilemmas about overmedication or undermedication, conflicts with physicians or patients, and concern over opioid side effects. A tentative model of decision making related to pain is presented.
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
E
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0162-220X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
289-97
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Clinical decision making and pain.
pubmed:affiliation
City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California 91010.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't