title: Student nurses and children's pain.
abstract: The issue of pain assessment has attracted great interest in recent years, but there are as yet precious few studies which concentrate on paediatric nurses' assessment skills. Sue Price describes a study of how first-level (general) student nurses assessed children's pain. Despite a small sample size, she found wide variation in understanding of the intensity of pain being suffered by children. She recommends the inclusion of a session on the assessment and management of pain in the paediatric module of general nursing syllabuses.
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authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Price
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing*; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D013338:Students, Nursing