Nurses' experiences with health care in pain clinics: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent research has focused on the effectiveness of different treatment regimens in pain clinics, where a call for more multifaceted treatment has been highlighted. Less attention has been paid to improvements within pain clinics, and how registered nurses-who usually play a key role-perceive and experience the accessibility, treatment options and follow-up offers at public pain clinics.

Objective

The overall aim was to explore and describe how nurses experience health care provided to patients with chronic non-cancer pain at pain clinics.

Methods

We used 10 individual interviews with nurses working at 10 different public pain clinics in Norway. The interviews were analyzed using qualitative content analysis.

Results

One theme was developed from the

SUBMITTER: Gjesdal K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6608665 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature