title: [Postoperative pain relief in patients from the perspective of nurses at an intensive care center].
abstract: The objective of the present study was to identify how nurses relieve the post-operative patients pain in the Intensive Care Unit of a general hospital, situated in São Paulo city council. Participated of this study 14 nurses between 20 and 40 years, and 78.6% were females and 42.9% had 1 to 5 years of professional performance. The data were collected through half-structured recordered interview and qualitatively analysed, applying the stages proposed by Bardin. Two categories were found: appraisement of pain and conducts to relieve pain. The results displayed that the nurses used as the medicinal therapeutics as the complementaries to pain relief an considered the appraisement of this pain as initial conduct to set up a way to comfort, prevention and relief.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Católica de Goiás. vscvila@uol.com.br
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Vila
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Mussi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000451:nursing*