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Understanding Pain Management Practices

   

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Running head: RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT IN END-OF-LIFE‘RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT IN END-OF-LIFE’Name of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note
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1 RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT IN END-OF-LIFETable of Contents1. Introduction......................................................................................................................31.1 Literature review........................................................................................................32. Problem statement & research question/ Hypothesis......................................................53. Methodology....................................................................................................................63.1 Research onion:.........................................................................................................63.2 Research philosophy..................................................................................................64. Research Design..............................................................................................................74.1 Justification for the type of research design chosen..................................................75. Participants Recruitment and Sampling...........................................................................85.1 Justification for the type of sampling method chosen...............................................85.2 Recruitment of participants........................................................................................86. Data collection.................................................................................................................97. Data analysis..................................................................................................................108. Rigour and reliability.....................................................................................................119. Ethical Issues.................................................................................................................1210. Limitations...................................................................................................................1311. Conclusion...................................................................................................................13References..........................................................................................................................15
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2 RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT IN END-OF-LIFE
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3 RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT IN END-OF-LIFE1. Introduction According to the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), pain is definedas an unpleasant sense or feeling due to potential tissue damage (Iasp-pain.org, 2017). Pain is notjust a physical condition; it is caused by personality, attitudes, and social beliefs and effect theperson’s emotional and mental health as well. There are different type of pains that affectselderly people, at the end of their life. Acute, chronic, break through, bone related, nerve andtotal pain are several kind of pains that affect people (Abdulla et al. 2013, p. 42). Therefore, painmanagement of these elderly patients about to face the end of their life becomes important.Priorities are to relief the symptoms of pain to make their end –life little relaxed. It also helps tocreate a proper physician-patient relationship. 1.1 Literature review There is a broad array of patients suffering from life threatening diseases such as cancer,HIV and many more, which ultimately leads to end of life. These life-threatening diseases knowsno borders and affects rich, poor, young, old irrespective of race, gender and ethnicity. Theknowledge attitudes of nurses towards such patients in pain and their pain management strategieshas been studies by several researchers. According to Barry et al. (2012, p. 1260), nurses has thecentral role in understanding and treating patients with dementia, where pain was prevalentamong older adults. The methodology they chose to find out the attitudes and knowledge ofnurses while providing care was random questionnaires comprising of six sections. Thesequestionnaires was sent to 244 nursing homes. After the data collection, it was seen that painmanagement guideline strategies was not been followed by nearly 40 percent of nursing staffs.The managers of those care centers were uncertain about managing the pain in residents. Usageof opioid analgesic drugs was prevalent.
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