“…The most frequently selected nursing diagnosis was acute pain; this result is consistent with previous research conducted with nursing students (Lee, ; Lee et al., ; Min, ). In addition, nurses working in the orthopedics unit (Kim, ), medical‐surgical unit (Ko, ; Park, ), general surgical unit (Lee, ), and the obstetrics and gynecological unit (Kim, ) selected acute pain as the most prevalent nursing diagnosis for patients under their care, regardless of clinical setting. Nurses in other countries such as Australia, Sweden, and United States reported that pain was the most frequently used nursing diagnosis (Ehrenberg & Ehnfors, ; King, Chard, & Elliot, ; O'Connor, Hameister, & Kershaw, ) in hospitals and nursing homes.…”