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Comparison of pain assessment by patients and triage nurses
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معصومه Modanloo m   , نعیمه Seyyed fatemi n , فریده Bastani f , حمید Peyrovi h , ناصر Behnampour n , مسلم Hesam m , حبیب Abdollahi h |
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Abstract: (2827 Views) |
| Aims: Excellence in pain assessment is crucial for pain management. Pain is a subjective and individual phenomenon and patients' assessment can be affected by their experiences. The purpose of this study was to compare the pain assessment of patients and triage nurses of emergency ward . Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study performed on patients referred to 5-e-Azar hospital of Gorgan in 2007 and 16 nurses of triage area in emergency ward. 100 patients selected by purposive sampling method. Data was collected by a questionnaire of demographic information and numeric rating scale (NRS) of pain. At first, the triage nurse was rated the patient's pain based on history taking. Separately, researchers asked patients to rate their pain intensity in triage. Gathered data were analyzed by using Wilcoxon and Spearman correlation coefficient in SPSS 16 software. Results: The minimum patients' pain intensity score was 5. 90% of patients assessed their pain as severe. By increasing the estimate of patients from their pain, the nurses reported less pain and vice versa, when the patients estimated less pain, the nurses estimated it more. Patients' average pain intensity score was 9.13±1.26 and triage nurses' ratings were significantly lower (7.60±2.1 p<; 0.001). Conclusion: Estimation of patients and triage nurses from pain is inconsistent and in many cases, contrary to one another. |
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| Keywords: Keywords, Pain‚ Nurse‚ Triage‚ Emergency, NRS |
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Received: 2019/03/3 | Published: 2010/04/15
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