Student nurses and children's pain.
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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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