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Protocols are required to enhance nurses’ lines of power when caring for patients in pain. This includes triggering a critical incidence when nurses struggle to control a patient's pain, thus mobilising senior medical staff and pain specialists to the patient's bedside.
Whether triggering a critical incidence in this context results in better pain care needs further evaluation.
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Patients admitted to hospital wards usually require some degree of pain management. However, pain care for patients in hospital setting continues to be problematic.1 Many studies to date have focused on how nurses assess and manage pain in various patient groups. …
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