“…Following this line of reasoning, the aim of the present study was to conduct content validation of NOC outcomes and indicators for Acute Pain, one of the NDs most commonly established in hospital nursing practice (Ferreira, Predebon, Cruz, & Rabelo, 2011; Lucena & Barros, 2006; Lucena, Guterréz, Echer, & Barros, 2010). Furthermore, pain assessment is a major object of nursing investigations, which supports the idea of exploring its context in a hospital setting (Arbour & Gélinas, 2011; Haslam, Dale, Knechtel, & Rose, 2011).…”