Abstract
Despite well-publicized guidelines, acute pain remains a significant problem for medical inpatients, including veterans. Registered nurse staff plays a key role in inpatient pain management: they assess pain, coordinate and administer pain medication and evaluate its effectiveness. The nursing shortage has prompted study of nurse staffing and nurse education as key structures in those outcomes defined as sensitive to nursing, including pain management. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which nurse staffing and nurse education predict five specific pain management outcomes. A cross-sectional design was used to examine the effects of nurse staffing defined as hours per patient day (hppd), nursing-specific level of education, patient and pain characteristics on patient assessment of overall satisfaction with pain management, with nurse treatment of pain, wait time for pain medication, with nurse communication about the importance of pain treatment and with nurse communication about the importance of reporting pain.
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Unknown
Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Other
Research Approach
Quantitative Research
Keywords:
Nursing Education, Pain Management, Pain Treatment, Nurse Communication
Advisor
M. Nicolas Coppola
Second Advisor
Sloan Burke
Third Advisor
Paula Stechshulte
Degree
PhD
Degree Grantor
Capella University
Degree Year
2007
Recommended Citation
McCormack, Cynthia A., "Relevance of pain management outcomes in veterans" (2022). Dissertations. 539.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/539
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Review Type
None: Degree-based Submission
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2022-09-26
Full Text of Presentation
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Description
This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3278309; ProQuest document ID: 304721202. The author still retains copyright.