The CNS and NP are ideal champions to implement pain management protocols and likely other quality improvement initiatives.
A consistent finding is that caregivers' lack the knowledge and skills to select and implement pain treatment strategies [ 30].
Under the guidance of postnatal nurses, parents can learn and practice the relevant skills (e.g., administering sugar water, breastfeeding) for implementing pain management during future infant vaccinations.
Health care professionals can do much to address the barriers identified by: correcting misconceptions regarding cancer pain, facilitating the communication of pain within dyads, and ensuring that patients and family caregivers have the knowledge, skills, and ability to assess and implement pain treatment strategies.
For example, in a study aiming to implement pain management guidelines and falls prevention guidelines in residential care settings, less than 45% of facilities participating in a training program regarding the guidelines actually implemented the one or the other of the guidelines [ 18].
The Pain Monitoring Program consisted of two components: educating nurses about pain, pain assessment and pain management; and implementing daily pain assessment by means of a numeric rating scale.
An appropriately designed and implemented multimodal pain protocol will reduce postoperative pain levels, need for narcotic medication, side effects, and adverse events while improving functional recovery (including ambulation, discharge from hospital, and range of motion), and patient satisfaction.
The PMP consisted of two components: educating nurses about pain, pain assessment, and pain management, and implementing daily pain assessment by means of a numeric rating scale.
Units that have implemented such pain monitoring procedures in daily patient care have reported decreases in hospital stays and in the number of ventilation days [4].
Units that have implemented such pain monitoring procedures in daily patient care have reported decreases in hospital stays and in the number of ventilation days [ 4].
