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Evaluating Nursing Pain Assessment Documentation With The Pediatric Client, Aziza Alexander
Evaluating Nursing Pain Assessment Documentation With The Pediatric Client, Aziza Alexander
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Pain is often seen as a primary complaint in the pediatric emergency department (ED). Assessment and documentation of pain are integral to effective pain management, and nurses are responsible for documenting pain assessment. Nursing documentation is essential for ensuring continuous, safe, high-quality care. Evidence shows nurses are inadequately documenting pain assessment and reassessment and not always using appropriate pain scales in a busy, cosmopolitan children's hospital ED. The practice-focused question that guided this project was: How does an educational module and change in electronic health record pain assessment flowsheet increase the nurses' compliance with initial documentation of pain? An educational …