Developing an acute pain service in a multicultural setting.
Development of an Acute Pain Service in a multicultural environment can be a difficult and challenging endeavor. In addition to concerns about communicating with patients who speak a foreign language, the problem of integrating staff from many different backgrounds must be faced. Education for both patients and staff must be innovative, multifaceted, and individualized. At King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the past 2 years have been a time of challenge and growth as an interdisciplinary team developed a pain service that meets the hospital's unique needs while fulfilling the goal of improved pain management for the patients.
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D000698:Analgesia / Q000379:methods*; D016058:Analgesia, Patient-Controlled; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education; D010146:Pain / Q000208:ethnology*; D059408:Pain Management; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012529:Saudi Arabia