Determinants of nurses’ knowledge gap on pain management in Ghana

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dc.contributor.authorAdejumo, Oluyinka
dc.contributor.authorAziato, Lydia
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-26T10:24:41Z
dc.date.available2014-11-26T10:24:41Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThere are concerns about adequacy of nurses’ knowledge and skill in effective pain management since effective pain management promotes early recovery after surgery. This study explores factors that accounted for Ghanaian nurses’ inadequate knowledge of postoperative pain management using a focused ethnographic design for data collection at a tertiary teaching hospital in Ghana. Fourteen nurses designated as key informants with different backgrounds as nurse educators and leaders were purposively sampled to participate. Data were collected through in-depth individual interviews; all interviews were conducted in English, audio-taped and transcribed verbatim. The study revealed that nurses’ inadequate pain management knowledge might have resulted from curriculum gaps during training; inadequate clinical supervision, study days, and workshops for practising nurses; lack of funding for organising regular workshops; and, negative attitudes of nurses whereby new information learned at workshops was not readily applied in clinical practice. It was concluded that nursing curricula at all levels of training in Ghana should incorporate credit-bearing courses on pain management, and appropriate pain management education programmes should be instituted for practising nurses. Regular monitoring and evaluation of the impact of such education programs is required.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.citationAziato, L., & Adejumo, O., (2014). Determinants of nurses’ knowledge gap on pain management in Ghana. Nurse Education in Practice, 14: 195-199en_US
dc.identifier.issn1471-5953
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1309
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
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dc.rightsCopyright UWC. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2013.08.004
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectPain managementen_US
dc.subjectCurriculum reviewen_US
dc.subjectEthnographyen_US
dc.subjectQualitative researchen_US
dc.titleDeterminants of nurses’ knowledge gap on pain management in Ghanaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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