Assessment of Adult Postoperative Pain Management Practice Among Nurses Working in Addis Ababa Public Hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2015
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Background
Despite the increased focus on pain management programs and the development of new
standards for pain assessment, postoperative pain (POP) remains a concern for patients.
Objective: To assess adult postoperative pain management practice among
nurses
working in Addis Ababa public hospitals, Ethiopia, 2015.
Methods: A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted on nurses in Addis Ababa
public hospitals from April 26 to May 10, 2015. Self-administered structured
questionnaire was distributed to 331 nurses selected randomly. However, 327
questionnaires were collected while 4 respondents didn’t return questionnaires and
another 3 were found incomplete. So 324 nurses gave complete responses to all items
provided and the response rate was 97.9%. Statistical software SPSS version 20 was
used to compute descriptive statistics, association by operating bivariate logistic
regression analysis and data was presented using frequency tables.
Result: The result showed that there is a significant association between sex and
postoperative management practice with [OR= 0.194, (95%CI: 0.053, 0.714)].Males
practice was better than females. Similarly the study showed a significant association
between area of practice and postoperative management practice [OR=9.761(95% CI:
1.858, 51.274)]. Nurse’s practice in SICU was found better than those working in
surgical ward.
Conclusion: Even though the majority of nurses are professionals the overall knowledge
and practice of nurses working in the postoperative area was found low in this study. This
indicates that postoperative pain was undertreated, and patient’s right to get rid of pain
was not respected.
Recommendations: continuous professional development, proficiency assessment, and
provision of PATs and pain guideline was recommended.
Key words: postoperative pain, knowledge and practice.
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Postoperative pain, knowledge and practice