Nurses and opioids: results of a bi-national survey on mental models regarding opioid administration in hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Pain remains insufficiently treated in hospitals. Increasing evidence suggests human factors contribute to this, due to nurses failing to administer opioids. This behavior might be the consequence of nurses' mental models about opioids. As personal experience and conceptions shape these models, the aim of this prospective survey was to identify model-influencing factors.

Material and methods

A questionnaire was developed comprising of 14 statements concerning ideations about opioids and seven questions concerning demographics, indicators of adult learning, and strength of religious beliefs. Latent variables that may underlie nurses' mental models were identified using undirected graphical dependence models. Representative items of latent variables were employed for

SUBMITTER: Guest C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5338981 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature