TY - JOUR T1 - Parents’ preferences on pain treatment, even when faced with medication dilemmas, influence their decisions to administer opioids in children JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 51 LP - 52 DO - 10.1136/eb-2015-102164 VL - 19 IS - 2 AU - Samina Ali AU - Naveen Poonai Y1 - 2016/04/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/19/2/51.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Voepel-Lewis T, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Smith EL, et al. Parents’ preferences strongly influence their decisions to withhold prescribed opioids when faced with analgesic trade-off dilemmas for children: a prospective observational study. Int J Nurs Stud 2015;52:1343–53.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedNurses have an important responsibility to educate and empower parents about providing pain medication to children.Nurses should be trained and confident in providing education to families about at-home pain management for children.Future researchers should focus on developing family-friendly pain measurement tools for parents to use with their child.The undertreatment of children's pain has been a long-standing issue.1 Healthcare professional, parental and patient preferences and knowledge can influence pain treatment. Voepel-Lewis and colleagues shed some light on how parental perceptions of their child's pain and their understanding of … ER -