KNOWLEDGE ON CANCER PAIN MANAGEMENT AMONG NURSES OF HOSPITAL IN LALITPUR

Pain management is the fundamental human right for patients to have freedom from pain nurses are the most important parts in assessment and management of pain as they spend more time with patients. The main objectives of the study were to assess the level of knowledge about the cancer pain management among the nurses working in oncology hospital of Lalitpur. A descriptive cross sectional study was carried out among 75 nurses by using Census method in selected oncology hospital of central region via self-administered semistructured questionnaire. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used. Descriptive statistics i.e., mean, median and standard deviation was used to assess the level of knowledge. Inferential statistics i.e., Chi-square test was used to find out the association between dependent and independent variables. The findings of the study showed that out of 75 nurses more than half (54.7%) had completed bachelor degree and 60 % were unmarried and all most of (82%) had work experience one to five years. Less than half (38.7%) nurses had good knowledge where as 37.3 had average knowledge and 24% had poor knowledge on cancer management. All most of the nurses knew that intravenous opoids is best for severe onset of cancer pain. The study concluded that most of the nurses have adequate knowledge on cancer pain management and only few of them have taken special training on it.