Non-pharmacological pain management practice and barriers among nurses working in Debre Tabor Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with or resembling that actual or potential tissue damage. Different study findings show that about 55% to 78.6% of inpatients experience moderate-to-severe pain. Nurses are one of the health professional who may hear of pain suffered by the patients and who can manage patient suffering by themselves. Therefore, their correct skill is very important in non- pharmacology and pharmacology pain management methods.

Objective

To assess non-pharmacological pain management practice and barriers among nurses working in Debre Tabor Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia.

Methods

Data were collected using structured observational check list with interviewer administered questionnaires that measur

SUBMITTER: Zeleke S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8205171 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature