Fundamentals of Nursing provides you with all of the fundamental nursing concepts and
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Objective Productive patient-clinician communication is an important component of effective
pain management, but we know little about how patients and clinicians actually talk about …

Poor management of post-operative acute pain can contribute to medical complications
including pneumonia, deep vein thrombosis, infection and delayed healing, as well as the …

Pain in patients who are critically ill remains undertreated despite decades of research,
guideline development and distribution, and intense educational efforts. By nature of their …

Pain assessment conventionally has been viewed hierarchically with self-report as its “gold-
standard.” Recent attempts to improve pain management have focused on the importance of …

Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is a lengthy surgical procedure that requires a personalized
approach depending on the characteristics of the patient. For this reason, this surgery …

Background Incidence of postoperative pain has been reported to be between 47–100%.
Ineffective postoperative pain management results in tangible and intangible costs. The …

Background Adequacy of pain management is a process indicator of health care quality with
consequences for patient outcomes and satisfaction. The reported incidence of moderate to …

Aim. To compare pain levels reported by patients with those documented by ward nurses
and to find out to what extent the amount of opioids given correlated with the pain level …

Aims and objectives To describe patients' and nurses' knowledge and beliefs regarding pain
management. Moreover, to explore the effect of information and education on patients' and …