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Journal of advanced nursing
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
The implementation of a Pain Monitoring Programme for nurses in daily clinical practice: results of a follow-up study in five hospitals.
To study the effects of the implementation of a Pain Monitoring Programme (PMP) for nurses in daily clinical practice. In addition, nurses' and physicians' pain knowledge and attitudes were studied, as well as change in nurses' pain knowledge after implementation of the programme. ⋯ Based on these results it can be concluded that it is possible to implement the PMP in daily clinical practice. Moreover, the beneficial effects of our programme on nurses' knowledge and attitudes have been demonstrated. Therefore, participating hospitals were advised to continue and extend the programme and other hospitals are encouraged to implement it.