Pain Management Critique

My first Article by Bozimowski G.date is the “Patient Perceptions of Pain Management Therapy: A Comparison of Real-Time Assessment of Patient Education and Satisfaction and Registered Nurse Perceptions”, which I found on Cinahl by searching for the words (Pain management AND patient dissatisfaction). The purpose of this article is to determine if the nurses’ perception of patient’s satisfaction regarding the regimen of their pain management is congruent with patients’ own self-reports. This article aim is also to determine if the patients’ level of their pain satisfaction corresponds to the therapy type they have or to the possible experiences of these medications side effects. Finally, the last aim is to study the effect of adequate teaching

This research took place in a community hospital, and patients involved in the study were diagnosed to have pain as a nursing diagnosis. Furthermore, they were on medical-surgical floors. Results showed that patients’ self ratings of pain were similar to the rating of patient satisfaction by nurses. This article also showed that adequate patient teaching from the nurses increase pain satisfaction and high patients’ self reports of pain leads to decreased satisfaction of pain. Another result of the article showed that patients who are on IV analgesics have higher pain cores than patients who are on other pain analgesic interventions. This article is related to the purpose of our study in which it suggests specific interventions (for example, educations and regimen type) which has been shown by the author to be effective in decreasing pain and increasing the patients’ pain satisfaction. Thus, this research will be useful for our project question, in addition to its literature review part about patient dissatisfaction, measuring patient management efficacy, and patient satisfaction, and providing optimal pain management that is useful for