title: Linking nursing pain assessment, decision-making and documentation.
abstract: A clinical nurse specialist's (CNS) experience in the development and implementation of a pain assessment and treatment flowsheet (PATF) to enhance the nursing assessment, decision-making, and documentation of pain on a palliative care unit in a community hospital is described in this article. Members of the palliative care interdisciplinary team use the PATF for clinical decision-making in the day-to-day management of patients' pain. The PATF is undergoing revision and re-implementation to promote the utilization of the tool beyond the specialty of palliative care and into the general patient population.
authors.affiliation: Hospice Palliative Care Program, Langley Health Services, South Fraser Health Region, BC.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tayler
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: McLeod
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D004282:Documentation; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing; D015399:Nursing Research; D010147:Pain Measurement; D016730:Program Development