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Pain: an account of nurses' talk
Author(s) -
Wakefield Ann B
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.21050905.x
Subject(s) - documentation , categorization , pain management , distressing , nursing , medicine , psychology , postoperative pain , physical therapy , anesthesia , philosophy , chemistry , epistemology , computer science , programming language
This paper examines how nurses refer to pain and pam management in their talk The documentation of talk was established after engaging a group of five nurses in a series of in‐depth unstructured interviews lastmg approximately 1 hour, in which they were encouraged to discuss their ideas regarding how postoperative pain should be managed, to render it more effective as an aspect of patient care However, the talk revealed that nurses tended to categorize patients according to symptoms or overt pain behaviours This essentially resulted in patients not being believed when they signalled that pam was becoming a distressing symptom The paper also discusses how nurses' knowledge regarding pain and pain management influences the way in which they manage postoperative pain