Experience of Registered Nurses of Postoperative Pain Assessment Using Objective Measures among Children at Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Ghana

Pain is defined as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage".1 Postoperative pain refers to the pain experienced after surgery.2 Studies show that children feel pain just like the adult population...

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Published in:Journal of caring sciences 2020-08, Vol.9 (3), p.125-132
Main Authors: Ofosu Dwamena, Sylvia Oger, Druye, Andrews Adjei, Asamoah Ampofo, Evelyn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
child
Children & youth
Medical-surgical nursing
nurses
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Pain
Pain management
Patient assessment
Pediatrics
Phenomenology
Physiology
postoperative
Postoperative period
Surgery
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Summary:Pain is defined as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage".1 Postoperative pain refers to the pain experienced after surgery.2 Studies show that children feel pain just like the adult population.3-5 Every individual is entitled to pain management. Behavioural measures involve observing how a child behaves in response to pain such as facial expressions, crying, body postures and movements.10 Physiological measures include assessment of heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, oxygen saturation, palmer sweating and temperature.11 For pain, assessment to be practical, and consistent pain assessment tools and guidelines are used. A number of these studies are on procedural pain such as pain from intravenous insertions and venipuncture and have mainly been conducted in emergency units 20,21 and neonatal intensive care units.22-24 Most of these research studies are quantitative,25-27 and parents have mainly been the target population.28-30 It is apparent that many gaps exist in the current literature regarding postoperative pain among children 0-3 years. [...]the purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of registered nurses in assessing postoperative pain among children (0-3 years) using objective measures at the surgical unit at the ENRH in Ghana.
ISSN:2251-9920
2251-9920
DOI:10.34172/jcs.2020.019