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Inventi Impact: Nursing Research

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  • Inventi:hnr/18353/15
    Nursesâ?? and Nursing Studentsâ?? Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Pediatric Pain
    01-Jan-1970 Research 2016 : January - March
    Mario I Ortiz, Hector A Ponce-Monter, Eduardo Rangel-Flores, Blanca Castro-Gamez, Luis C Romero-Quezada, Jessica P Oâ??Brien, Georgina Romo-Hernandez, Marco A Escamilla-Acosta

    Nursing staff spend more time with patients with pain than any other health staff member. For this reason, the nurse must\npossess the basic knowledge to identify the presence of pain in patients, to measure its intensity and make the steps necessary for\ntreatment. Therefore, a prospective, descriptive, analytical, and cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the knowledge\nand attitudes regarding pediatric pain in two different populations.The questionnaire, Pediatric Nurses Knowledge and Attitudes\nSurvey Regarding Pain (PKNAS), was applied to 111 hospital pediatric nurses and 300 university nursing students. The final scores\nfor pediatric nurses and nursing students were 40.1 �± 7.9 and 40.3 �± 7.5, respectively. None of the sociodemographic variables\npredicted the scores obtained by the participants (

    How to Cite this Article
    CC Compliant Citation: Mario I. Ortiz, Héctor A. Ponce-Monter,\nEduardo Rangel-Flores, et al., â??Nurses' and Nursing Students'\nKnowledge and Attitudes regarding Pediatric Pain,â? Nursing\nResearch and Practice, vol. 2015, Article ID 210860, 8 pages, 2015.\ndoi:10.1155/2015/210860, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/\nby/3.0/.
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