Pain in people with dementia (PWD) is underassessed and undertreated. Treatment of pain in people with dementia goes awry\nbecause of poor assessment, poor treatment, and factors related to nursing decision-making skills. Several theoretical models\naddressed the role of nursesâ?? critical thinking and decision-making skills in pain treatment, like the cognitive continuum theory\n(CCT) and the adaptive painmanagement (APT). Only the Response to Certainty of Pain (RCP)model was the first model to posit\nrelationships between nurses' uncertainty, pain assessment, and patient outcomes. Gilmore-Bykovskyi and Bowers developed the\nRCP, which incorporates the concept of uncertainty and how it relates to the problem of unrelieved pain in PWD.The RCP model\nhas the potential to provide good understanding of the problem of unrelieved pain in people with dementia. It also could help to\ndevelop a research study that brings comfort to an often neglected and vulnerable population.
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