How do intensive care nurses assess patients’ pain?

Nursing in Critical Care

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 62-67

  Aslan, Fatma Eti ^a   Badir, Aysel ^b   Selimen, Deniz ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Critical care intensive care; Intensive care nurse; Nursing interventions; Pain; Pain assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; NURSING; NURSING DISCIPLINE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SPECIALTIES, NURSING; TURKEY;

EID: 0037639061     PISSN: 13621017     EISSN: 14785153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1478-5153.2003.00006.x     Document Type: Article

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