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Enhancing Pain Documentation In Medical Surgical Units: Integrating Supportive Tools With Pain Nursing Education, Mariana Arias

Master's Projects and Capstones

Problem: Pain management in in-patient care, particularly involving opioids, is critical due to the associated risks. Proper pain assessment is essential to ensure safe medication administration and mitigate adverse effects.

Context: This quality improvement (QI) project aimed to improve opioid assessment and documentation rate above 90% compliance in two medical-surgical units, focusing on bedside nurses who play a crucial role in patient safety and effective pain management.

Interventions: A baseline survey provided nurses' understanding on compliance criteria and assessment timing. Interventions included visual reminders, informational posters, and instructions on how to access individual compliance reports.

Measures: A post intervention survey …

Pain Assessment And Reassessment Documentation Improvements In Medical-Surgical Units, Alicia Espinoza

Master's Projects and Capstones

Problem Pain management is essential when providing quality care, and adequate documentation of pain assessment and reassessment with administration of opioid pain medications by nurses is necessary for patient safety and satisfaction. Context Nurses play a pivotal role in providing safe and effective administration of opioid pain medication and documentation of pain assessments. This quality improvement (QI) project aimed to increase opioid medication administration assessment and documentation compliance rate for nurses to 90% or greater in two medical-surgical units. Intervention A knowledge check survey was utilized to assess nurse understanding of required data needed to document, and timing for documentation …