Survey and analysis on the pain management status and training needs of clinical nursing staff

Abstract

Objective To know the clinical nursing staff′s master degree in pain management knowledge, the status of pain management, and nursing staff′s training requirements for pain management, so as to provide scientific references for the improvement of clinical nursing staff′s pain management trainingand pain management system. Methods A total of 264 clinical nurses from northern of Jiangsu province were surveyed by Chinese version knowledge and attitudes survey regarding pain (KASRP) and the Carlson′s EBPMP prior conditions instruments (CPCIs). Results The master degree of pain management in clinical nurses was low, and the average rate of correct response on KASRP score was 49.91%, and the mean score of KASRP was (19.96±3.34). The differences in KASRP score among nursing staff with different master degree of pain management and different age were significant different (F=3.966, 3.592; P<0.05). Among all the internal and external factors which may influence the evidence-based nursing practice and pain management that nursing staff take, the dimension of previous practice gained the highest score (4.18±0.52), while the innovativeness instrument gained the lowest score (3.09±0.57). Conclusions The clinical nurses′ knowledge of pain in northern of Jiangsu province is insufficient, and the level of pain management needs to be improved. Clinical nurses have urgent need in learning knowledge of pain, and further strengthen clinical training in pain management should be provided to increase their knowledge of pain and clinical nursing quality. Key words: Nursing staff; Pain management; Knowledge; Attitude; Training needs