Emiru, Mulugeta (2015) Assessment of Adult Postoperative Pain Management Practice among Nurses Working in Addis Ababa Public Hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2015. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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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.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | postoperative pain, knowledge and practice |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2018 09:05 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Nov 2018 09:05 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7640 |
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