AbstractIt is currently estimated that the lack of adequate pain management affects 80% of the global population and the phenomenon poses a serious problem in more than 150 countries. On a national level, the greatest burden of inadequate treatment is borne, among others, by elderly patients. The purpose of the paper was to compare the prevalence of barriers to optimum post-operative pain management in elderly patients, observed by nurses in a clinical, provincial and municipal hospital in Poland. The research project was a multi-center one and took over a year. The study was questionnaire-based. It used the Polish version of the Nurses’ Perceived Obstacles to Pain Assessment and Management Practices questionnaire. The study included a total of 1602 nurses working at a clinical, provincial and municipal hospital.In the university hospital, difficulties in pain assessment related to the healthcare system occurred statistically significantly more often.
Providing high quality medical services for patients from a different cultural background is only possible when the therapeutic team members prove some basic cultural competence. In response to community demand the Multicultural Care in European Intensive Care Units (MICE-ICU) project has been developed within the ERASMUS+ program. The Polish Association of Anaesthesiology and ICU Nurses is the beneficiary of the MICE-ICU program and the coordinator of the project. The main goal of the project is to prepare report regarding ICU nurses cultural competences and educational needs, and according to that report, to prepare online course for ICU nurses regarding multicultural nursing care.
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