Patients’ Versus Nurses’ Assessments of Pain and Sedation After Cesarean Section

Evaluation of Nurses' Self-Insight Into Their Pain Assessment and Treatment Decisions

“…Across a range of conditions and settings, nurses often underestimate pain compared to patient self-report9,15,27,43,48,53,55,56,60. Many reasons likely exist for these discrepancies, including provider biases and lack of insight into decision-making processes, which were primary considerations in this study.…”

Empathy in paediatric intensive care nurses part 1: Behavioural and psychological correlates

“…While it should also be noted that while several studies have shown that clinicians tend to underestimate adult patients’ pain, other studies have produced conflicting results, showing that when patients are in no pain or mild pain, health clinicians may appraise their patients’ pain higher (Heikkinen, Salanterä, Kettu, & Taittonen, ; Olden, Jordan, Sakima, & Grass, ; Zalon, ). In a study involving paediatric nurses and allied health professionals assessing video clips of infants having routine painful medical procedures, nurses generally scored the pain of ill infants higher than non‐nurses (Latimer, Jackson, Johnston, & Vine, ).…”

Empathy in paediatric intensive care nurses part 2: Neural correlates

“…It should be noted that nurses’ pain intensity ratings here were compared only to those of AHP controls and not to the patients’ own evaluation of their pain and it is thus impossible to determine whether they actually overestimated this pain. Also, while literature reviews reveal a general tendency for underestimation (Prkachin et al., ; Solomon, ), there have been a few reports of overestimation by non‐paediatric healthcare professionals, when patients reported low pain intensity levels (Olden, Jordan, Sakima, & Grass, ; Zalon, ) or no pain (Heikkinen, Salanterä, Kettu, & Taittonen, ). Here, however, both low pain and high pain stimuli elicited higher pain intensity ratings from nurses than from controls.…”