Acute pain services - Effecting change in nursing attitudes towards postoperative analgesia

Acute Pain

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-16

  Atkinson, L ^a   Kluger, M T ^a   Lloyd, D ^a   Schug, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Acute pain services; Attitudes; Nurses; Postoperative pain

Indexed keywords

OPIATE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NURSING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE;

EID: 0032931954     PISSN: 13660071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1366-0071(99)80029-1     Document Type: Article

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