Enhancing Nurses’ Pain Assessment to Improve Patient Satisfaction

2/27/2018

This month’s article, “Enhancing Nurses’ Pain Assessment to Improve Patient Satisfaction” explores how it is more than just pain medication that dictates the patient’s pain experience and more about nursing interventions employed.

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To what extent did the intervention have on HCAHPS scores?
What interventions discussed would you see applicable to your care environment?
What changes, if any, would you recommend in your setting based on the evidence presented in the article?

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Eileen Block

7/16/2018 02:54:54 am

1. To what extent did the interventions have on HCAHPS scores?

The interventions that this study implemented had a relatively small affect on the overall HCAHPS scores. However, through nursing education interventions, nurses on this unit improved their assessment skills related to patients pain and pain management.

What interventions discussed would you see applicable to your care environment?

I specifically like the idea of having the laminated posters for nurses attached to the top of the work station WOW's. The laminated posters which highlight the 8 steps to enhanced pain assessment, when placed in continuous view, will be a positive reminder for all of the staff. Having small laminated cards with these steps is also a good idea - it could be easily attached to the nurses' badge. The biggest benefit I see with these two interventions is that they will have a continued affect on the nursing culture of this floor. For example, once everyone is educated, some nurses will leave the floor and new nurses will be hired. Maintaining these visible interventions would add long term continuity to the unit.

What changes, if any, would you recommend in your setting based on the evidence presented in the article?

It would be great if instead of a health stream module discussing the EBP implementation of these new protocols, we had a nurse educator embedded on the unit. The nurse educator could spend 20-25 minutes educating the nurses during their shifts. This would be a more interactive way for the RN's to learn and retain the information.

Enhancing Nurses’ Pain Assessment to Improve Patient Satisfaction

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