Objectives of the Study

1.         To determine patient’s pain management practices by staff nurses using a self-reported rating scale on pain management practices.

2.         To determine the level of practice in terms of documentation of pain management practices by the staff nurses using documentation checklist on pain management practices.

3.         To correlate the self reported pain management practices with the documentation.

4.         To find the association of the documentation of pain management practices with the selected demographic variables.

Hypotheses

H₁: There will be a significant relationship between the pain management practices  and documentation by the staff nurses.

H₂: There will be a significant association between the pain management practices with the selected demographic variables.

Method of Data Collection

1.         The information on pain management practices were collected using a self reported rating scale by the staff nurses .

2.         The documentation on pain management practices were evaluated by the investigator using a documentation checklist.

Results

The data showed that:

·         Majority (97.5%) of the subject’s reported poor pain management practices were as 2.5% reported good pain management practices.

·         100% of subjects practice in terms of documentation were poor.

·         There was a weak positive correlation (r= +0.124) between the level of self reported pain management practices with the documentation.

·         There was no significant association between the documentation of pain management practices with the selected demographic variables.