Journal of pediatric nursing
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Review Case Reports
Pain assessment in nonverbal children with severe cognitive impairments: the Individualized Numeric Rating Scale (INRS).
Children's Hospital Boston began a major pain assessment and management initiative 3 years ago: Pain assessment and management are considered one of the institution's primary standards of care. The initiative included State of the Science meetings with internationally renowned nursing pain researchers and clinicians. ⋯ After developing a clinical question, the authors did a literature review and a benchmarking analysis of best practice. The pilot of an adapted, existing pain assessment tool is described in this article.