Pain Management Knowledge of Registered Nurses Practicing in Acute-Care Hospitals in The Bahamas

Abstract

McCaffery and Ferrell (1992), some of which were modified to reflect the pain management practices in The Bahamas. The mean pain management knowledge score was 13.5 (46.6%, se = 0.20

Healthcare Providers’ Knowledge and Current Practice of Pain Assessment and Management: How Much Progress Have We Made?

“…Consistent with other studies [46, 49], the percentage of correct answers was significantly higher in private with respect to public hospitals. This finding is not surprising and might be explained, in part, by the small size of private hospitals taking part in the survey.…”

“…These results are in agreement with outcomes of several other similar studies around the world [19, 20, 26, 36, 46–49]. One of these studies, which inspired this work, found that the overall correct answers of all HCPs was 50%; moreover, they also discovered that nurses scored less than physicians (47.6% versus 57.3%) [19].…”

Educating Nurses at The College of The Bahamas

“…The first published research paper was Dean's 1994 study of Associate Degree student achievement, followed by a groundbreaking study on pain management knowledge by Neely-Smith, Turner, Curry, Moxey-Adderley, Wilson, & Smith in 2003. Research skills are threaded throughout the BSN programme. Nursing students become familiar with reading and applying research in their courses.…”