2-pronged approach improves pain recording.
Take a proactive approach towards staff education and charting procedures to improve staff performance in documenting pain in children. Hold regular inservices on an individual or small-group basis. Review importance of pain documentation and most common meds used. Make sure that physicians, as well as nurses, are encouraged to document pain in the medical record. Adjust your chart design so that commonly overlooked areas are more likely to catch the eye of staff members.
D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009519:New York City; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010371:Pediatric Nursing