Final Year Nursing Students' Knowledge and Attitudes regarding Children's Pain.

ABSTRACT: Pain is one of the commonest reasons why children visit the hospital. Inadequately treated pain in children can negatively affect their physical, psychological, and social well-being; it also places financial burden on families of affected children and healthcare systems in general. Considering the eventual suffering of vulnerable children and their families if nursing students are insufficiently educated and ill-prepared, the current study aimed at assessing final year nursing student's knowledge and attitudes pertaining to pediatric pain. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 100 final year undergraduate nursing students at a private university college in Ghana. In addition to their ages and gender, the students responded to the 42 individual items on the Pediatric Nurs

SUBMITTER: Kusi Amponsah A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7042548 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature