Background. Hospitalized infants still experience pain from regularly performed tissue-damaging procedures. Nurses have knowledge to manage the pain but do not apply that knowledge. There is agreement that hospital organizational factors influence quality of care outcomes and some indication that patient factors may influence level of care. / Objective. This study examined the factors from a conceptual model entitled Knowledge Use for Pain Care. These were (1) nurse, (2) organizational and (3) infant factors in relation to nurses' management of tissue-damaging procedures in hospitalized infants. / Research design. A prospective study using two neonatal intensive care units in two Canadian provinces in 2005 was used. / Participants. Ninety-three nurses who performed 170 tissue-damaging procedures. / Measures. Nurse demographic data included education, and years of experience. Nurses' knowledge of pain was measured using the new Pain Knowledge and Use instrument. Organizational factors were measured using the nurse-doctor Collaboration and Satisfaction about Care Decisions Scale (Baggs, 1994), and the Environmental Complexity Scale (O'Brien, Irvine, Peereboom & Murray, 1997). Infant factors included age and intensity of care required. Actual pain care was measured by a scorecard of nurses' assessment, management and documentation for the tissue-damaging procedure. Estimates of professional nurse, organizational and infant effects on nurses' pain care for the tissue-damaging procedures were derived from general estimating equations. / Results. Higher procedural pain care was associated with higher nurse doctor collaboration (odds ratio {OR}, 1.44; 95% confidence intervals {CI} 1.05-1.98), infants with higher intensity of care (OR, 1.21; 95% CI, 1.06-1.39), unanticipated increases in the work of nurse assignments (OR, 1.55; 95% CI, 1.04-2.30). Nurse's level of pain knowledge was adequate but did not translate into actual care for tissue-damaging procedures. / Conclusion. The results suggest that the model was partly supported. In particular the importance of nurse-physician collaboration in pain care delivery, a variable amenable to intervention and further study was significant. Overall, the factors that influence nurse's use of their pain knowledge to provide better care remain a complex issue.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.102670 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Latimer, Margot. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (School of Nursing.) |
| Rights | © Margot Latimer, 2006 |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002566097, proquestno: AAINR27807, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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