Emergency nurses perceived barriers to effective pain management at emergency department in Amhara region referral hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021. Multi-center cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Quality of pain management in emergency departments may be affected by nurses' perceived barriers. Poorly managed pain may lead to altered physiological and psychological function which affect patients' quality of life as well as increase costs to the health care system.

Objective

This study aimed to assess emergency nurse's perceived barriers to pain management and associated factors at emergency departments, 2021.

Methods

A multi-center cross-sectional study was conducted with 153 nurses from eight emergency departments from May1-May 30, 2021 with semi-structured questionnaire. All volunteer nurses were included. Epi-info version 7 and SPSS version 20.0 were used for data entry and analysis respectively. We used descriptive statistics to report results of

SUBMITTER: Admassie BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9486582 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature