Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses
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Neuropathic pain medications are included in multimodal postoperative analgesic strategies, but quality of perioperative pain is rarely assessed. ⋯ Pain quality should be assessed with valid, reliable, and developmentally appropriate tools. Visual analytics help illustrate pain quality at single points in time and longitudinally and may be helpful in guiding postoperative pain treatment.
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Describe interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in the context of pain management in neonatal intensive care based on healthcare team members' perceptions of partnership, cooperation and coordination. ⋯ Participants appreciated each other as professionals and were willing to cooperate, but they had different perceptions of parental involvement in IPC. Attention should be paid to IPC in specific contexts such as pain management.
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Previous studies show that pain is common among hospital inpatients. ⋯ This study shows that there is still an unacceptable high pain prevalence in inpatients and that patients experience pain as negatively impacting their sleep. Future pain care is likely to include a more comprehensive implementation strategy for the dissemination of knowledge, especially related to the complex context of today's healthcare system. That is, the possibility that anchoring new knowledge also benefits the patient is probably associated with optimization of the structural context. Future research should take this question further by examining how the organizational structure should be optimized for the dissemination of knowledge in healthcare professionals about pain and pain interference with sleep.
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Children having surgery experience distress from a myriad of sources. Aromatherapy may present an opportunity to promote a healing environment and decrease distress for children following surgery. ⋯ We were able to successfully implement a new aromatherapy program as an adjunct to care in children undergoing surgery. No adverse events were reported. Documentation is crucial to evaluating any new service.