Paediatric anaesthesia
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Jul 2019
Changing healthcare provider and parent behaviors in the pediatric post-anesthesia-care-unit to reduce child pain: Nurse and parent training in postoperative stress.
Children who undergo surgery experience significant pain in the post anesthesia care unit. Nurse and parent behaviors in the post anesthesia care unit directly impact child postoperative pain. Therefore, we have developed and evaluated (Phase 1) and then tested (Phase 2) the feasibility of a new intervention (Nurse and Parent Training in Postoperative Stress) to alter parent and nurse behaviors in a way consistent with reducing child postoperative pain. ⋯ The intervention was effective in changing nurse and parent behaviors as well as child pain after surgery.