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Apparently nurses, on the whole, are under-educated regarding the severity, etiology, ramifications, and other sequalea of chronic pain. A study conducted by Ferrel, McCaffery, and Rhiner (1991) discovered that lack of education of health care professionals, including nurses, is often cited as the cause for inadequate treatment for pain and for insufficient empathy in regards to chronic pain. Nurses (in this regard) often underestimate the severity and resilience of chronic pain and equate it with 'regular' pain, but by doing so, they lack sufficient empathy with patients and deal with the problem in a misguided fashion. Opoid analgesics, for instance, should be more frequently used as intervention. Instead, use of opiod analgesics is minimized due to fear of creating opoid addiction. Furthermore, cognitive therapy is one of the psychotherapeutic interventions that are relied on when, in fact, cognitive therapy has been shown to be ineffective with chronic pain.
Nurses receive only a basic education about pain, in general, and chronic pain in particular, and, oftentimes, parts of this rudimentary information...
As evidence of this point, Ferrel, McCaffery, and Rhiner (1991) reviewed fourteen nursing textbooks published since 1985. Reviewed textbooks included eight pharmacology manuals, and six medical surgical texts. All of these textbooks featured fundamental information on pain only, most of them skimpy and inadequate and content analysis found that only one textbook correctly defined opiod addiction and correctly assessed the likelihood of opiod addiction following use of opiod analgesics for pain control.
Moreover, the majority of the textbooks were unclear and ambiguous in their treatment and vocabulary of pain -- some of them seemed unfamiliar with the subject themselves; they confused issues, and several erroneously defined opiod addictions as consequent to employment of opiods for pain relief. If the nursing textbooks themselves are misguided as to treatment of chronic pain, it is no wonder that nurses, in turn, have erroneous and skimpy information of the subject.
To remedy the situation, Ferrel, McCaffery, and Rhiner (1991) proposed that…
References
Ferrel, B.R., McCaffery, M., & Rhiner, M. (1991) Pain and addiction: An urgent need for change in nursing education. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 7, 117-124
Thienhaus, O. & Cole, B.E. (2002). Classification of pain. In Weiner, R.S.. Pain management: A practical guide for clinicians (6 ed.). USA: American Academy of Pain Management
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