• Pain Manag Nurs · Jun 2015

    Observational Study

    Pediatric procedural pain: how far have we come? An ethnographic account.

    • Jo Ann F Cummings.
    • Department of Nursing, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey. Electronic address: JC_PHD@yahoo.com.
    • Pain Manag Nurs. 2015 Jun 1; 16 (3): 233-41.

    AbstractThe aim of this ethnographic study was to explore the pediatric procedural pain management practice of health care providers in a non-pediatric emergency department. Data were collected for 5 months and included more than 100 hours of observation. Six key informants were interviewed, and 44 pediatric procedural interactions with 27 health care providers during the treatment of children aged 2 to 8 years undergoing procedures were observed. Other information gathered included documents from the institution, and pain-related information from the patient's medical record. Two major themes with categories are discussed, the treatment of pain, and procedural pain. The findings of this study provide insight into the everyday practice of emergency department health care providers for pediatric pain in a non-pediatric setting, and identify practice issues that may adversely affect the management of pediatric procedural pain, notably the nonuse of pharmacologic techniques for simple needle procedures and the common use of physical restraint during painful procedures.Copyright © 2015 American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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