Background: Postoperative pain is expected and affects many patients who undergo surgery. To prevent complications and long-term pain, the nurse's role is to understand the patient's pain experience, assess the pain and treat it with both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments to relieve the patient's pain using a patient-centered approach. Purpose: The purpose was to investigate the experiences of adult patients with postoperative pain and pain relief. Method: A general literature study using a qualitative study design consisted of 10 scientific articles analyzed with an inductive approach according to Elo and Kyngäs. Results: Three categories were discovered: Postoperative experiences related to the patient, The patient's experience of postoperative pain treatment and the patient's experience of the care staff's response to postoperative pain. Conclusion: Postoperative pain is a complex and individual experience and pain descriptions can vary in intensity and form. Treatment choices, both pharmacological and non-pharmacological, affect how patients manage their pain. Nurses play an important role in patients' postoperative pain experience, which affects the outcome of pain management and pain relief.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:rkh-4873 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Salman, Mirna, Jara Velasco, Daniella |
| Publisher | Röda Korsets Högskola |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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