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The success of maggot debridement therapy is heavily influenced by the knowledge and attitudes of nurses. Studies indicate that wound specialist nurses are more knowledgeable and positively inclined...
The debate regarding health professionals' knowledge of pain is well documented throughout the literature, with early work dating back to the 1980s (McCaffery and Ferrell, 1997). Throughout the...
Knowledge of pain processes has changed considerably over the past 500 years, when there was the belief that pain is a sensation linked to body fluid imbalance, evil spirits or a punishment from God...
A convenience sample of 73 Jordanian cancer patients over the age of 18 years initially agreed to participate in the study at the KHCC in Jordan. Of these, 58 completed data collection at all time...
A structured search was made of the following databases: Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Medline Complete, PubMed Complementary Index, PsychINFO and British Nursing...
Good quality pain management will result in reduced pain severity, adequate pain relief, low functional interference, few adverse effects from pain or its treatment, and patient satisfaction with...
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