The aim of this study was to determine the level of knowledge that nurses in\nthe neonatal intensive care units (NICU) of a public birth center had about\nthe use of the Neonatal Infant Pain Scale (NIPS) and to test how their scoring\nfor NIPS changed before and after training. Thirty nurses applied the NIPS\nscale to newborns that were procedures considered painful. During the first\nand second evaluations, nurses diagnosed 30% infants as having pain and 70%\ninfants as having an absence of pain. In the third and fourth evaluations, after\nthe NIPS parameters had been explained, we observed an increase in the\nnumber of infants diagnosed with the presence of pain (65%). The results indicate\nthe importance of formal training for the systemic evaluation of pain in\nnewborns.
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