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Hospice and Hospital Oncology Unit Nurses a Comparative Survey of Knowledge and Attitudes About Cancer Pain," authors Connie J. Hollen et al. (2000) set out to examine any strengths, weaknesses and misconceptions that affect the ability of registered nurses to care for their patients.
To conduct their research, Hollen et al. (2000) went to 11 community hospices and 7 inpatient oncology units in hospitals around an urban county area in a southcentral state. The researchers then took a sample of 30 nurses working in hospices and 34 nurses from the hospital inpatient oncology units. These "convenience samples" were administered with surveys to determine their inclusion in the study, as well as their knowledge and attitudes about the management of pain in cancer patients.
The researchers used the North Carolina Cancer Pain Intiative (NCCPI) survey. This survey measures the primary components of a subject's...
The survey tool was chosen because of its comprehensiveness. The knowledge section alone measures 31 variables, while the demographic part has 56 items. The NCCPI survey was also useful because it allowed the researchers to measure different variables of a nurse's pain management duties.
The Hollen et al. (2000) study showed that hospice nurses scored significantly higher than their hospital counterparts in knowledge of opioid, general pain and scheduling subscale knowledge. The hospice group of nurses, for example, had a mean correct response of 80% in opioid knowledge, compared to only 57% for the typical hospital nurse.
Hospic nurses further scored higher in the "mean liberalness" score than hospital oncology nurses. Finally, the hospice nurses showed a…
Works Cited
Hollen, Connie J, Hollen, Charles W, and Stolte, J. 2000. "Hospice and Hospital Oncology Unit Nurses: A Comparative Survey of Knowledge and Attitudes About Cancer Pain." Oncology Nursing Forum. 27(10). November/December.
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