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20189129

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-3-1
pubmed:abstractText
The documentation of pain in the labor and delivery setting is one of the essential tasks of all health care providers who care for women in labor. The Joint Commission standards mandate regular pain assessments, but compliance with this mandate in the highly unique patient population of laboring woman is problematic when using the standard 0 to 10 Numeric Rating Scale. Labor pain is always unique given the various contributing physiologic, emotional, social, and cultural components. This article describes the work of a process improvement group to create an alternative pain assessment tool named the Coping With Labor Algorithm. The group, consisting of nurses and nurse-midwives, used the FOCUS format and Deming's "Plan, Do, Check, and Act" cycle to create a formalized assessment tool for use with laboring women. The Coping With Labor Algorithm is currently in use in the labor unit of a large tertiary care facility, which successfully passed a Joint Commission inspection while using the coping algorithm. The value of the coping algorithm is two-fold: it provides a mechanism for pain documentation, and it provides nursing care suggestions for the laboring woman. This article reports nurses' perceptions of the tool.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1542-2011
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
55
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
107-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
The coping with labor algorithm: an alternate pain assessment tool for the laboring woman.
pubmed:affiliation
leissa.roberts@nurs.utah.edu <leissa.roberts@nurs.utah.edu>
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article