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January 1, 2022American Journal of Nursing ScienceOpen Access

Optimizing Post-Surgical Pain Management in Adult Surgical Patients: Effects of Training Interventions on Surgical Nurses’ Knowledge

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Key result

A nursing training initiative increased surgical nurses' pain management knowledge scores from 71% to 83% and achieved controlled pain levels in over 88% of adult surgical patients.

Why the study?

Inadequate post-surgical pain management in adult surgical patients is common, with suboptimal post-surgical pain interventions recognized as a major barrier.

Does a training intervention for surgical nurses improve post-surgical pain management and nurses' knowledge in adult surgical patients?

Population

Adult surgical inpatients across eight wards and surgical nurses in one teaching hospital in Saudi Arabia

Comparison

Post-training intervention vs pre-training baseline

Design

Descriptive, cross-sectional pain prevalence and pre- and post-test knowledge survey

Authors

NTNabeeha TashkandiLTLaura K. TaylorLKLitaba Efraim Kolobe

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Overview

Supports nurse training for post-surgical pain; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized trials before practice change.

Study Design

Type

Cross-Sectional

Multicenter

No

Structured PICO

Does a training intervention for surgical nurses improve post-surgical pain management and nurses' knowledge in adult surgical patients?

P
Population
Adult surgical inpatients and surgical nurses in a Saudi Arabian teaching hospital evaluated before and after a pain management training initiative.
E
Exposure
Training interventions for surgical nurses to enhance post-surgical pain management competencies.
C
Comparator
Pre-intervention baseline (November 2019 for patients, January 2020 for nurses).
O
Outcome
Proportion of patients with pain intensity less than moderate pain, and surgical nurses' pain knowledge assessment scores.patient reported

Main Result

Absolute Event Rate: 83% vs 71%

Training interventions for surgical nurses improved both nurses' pain management knowledge and the proportion of adult surgical patients experiencing controlled post-surgical pain.

Cite This Study

Tashkandi et al. (2022) conducted a cross-sectional in Post-surgical pain. Training interventions on pain management strategies vs. Pre-intervention baseline was evaluated on Surgical nurses' pain knowledge assessment score. A nursing training initiative increased surgical nurses' pain management knowledge scores from 71% to 83% and achieved controlled pain levels in over 88% of adult surgical patients.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9a240bc99d08eca017ce09https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajns.20221102.14
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