Linking nursing pain assessment, decisionmaking and documentation.
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Date
2006-09-19T18:27:40Z
Authors
Tayler, Carolyn
McLeod, Barbara
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Publisher
Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology
Abstract
A clinical nurse specialist’s (CNS) experience in the development and implementation of a pain assessment and treatment flowsheet (PATF) to enhance the nursing assessment, decision-making, and documentation of pain on a palliative care unit in a community hospital is described in this article. Members of the palliative care interdisciplinary team use the PATF for clinical decision-making in the day-to-day management of patients’ pain. The PATF is undergoing revision and re-implementation to promote the utilization of the tool beyond the specialty of palliative care and into the general patient population.
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Palliative treatment--Canada., Pain--Treatment --Canada., Nursing--Canada--Decision making.
Citation
Tayler, Carolyn and McLeod, Barbara (2001) Linking nursing pain assessment, decisionmaking and documentation. Canadian oncology nursing journal 11(1):28-32.