Effective Pain Management Strategies for Nursing Professionals

This presentation identifies improvement measures for pain management strategies that could help nursing professionals provide effective care to patients. It includes a search strategy and analysis of research articles from JBI and CINAHL databases. The presentation highlights two strategies for improving pain management practices and their effectiveness for nursing professionals.

Workplace
Improvement
Plan
SEARCH STRATEGY AND ANALYSIS

Introduction
 Workplace improvement is one of the effective
aspects that helps the professionals to
understand the critical aspects and change the
critical aspects of it.
 Nursing profession and its complication also
requires effective changes and workplace
improvements so that patients could be
provided with effective care.
 This presentation would also identify the
improvement measures thorugh systematic
search so that pain related improvement could
be identified.

Search strategy
 To find out the research articles for “pain
management strategies that could help the
patient and nursing professionals”, this
research article should be found.
 In JBI database the search results is as follows:

Search strategy
 Another search was conducted in the CINAHL
database so that the pain management and its
connection to nursing profession could be
identified.
 The search strategy in this database is:

The search term
 The search terms that were used in this process
are: “pain management”, “nursing profession”,
“effective intervention”
 The Boolean operators such as AND and OR
were used to find out research articles for the
analysis of the search terms.
 The filters that this search strategy used are:
English language, publication date (2014 to
current date).

Title of research articles
that
 The research articles that has been included in
the research processes are:
“An interprofessional consensus of core
competencies for prelicensure education in pain
management: curriculum application for
nursing” and
“Evaluation of Evidence-Based Nursing Pain
Management Practice”
Both of these research articles were included in
this research process.

The research question
mentioned
 As the primary aim of the search strategy was
to understand the effectiveness of it and the
way the processes helped the nursing
professional to understand the patient and its
pain related conditions.
 Both of these articles identified the aspects that
could help to understand the application of pain
management strategies to understand the
effectiveness of it.

The first strategy
 The first strategy that was identified from the
research of () that nursing interventions and
aspects that were identified from the research
process and help them to understand the
application of it.
 From these aspect it was understood that
majority of the healthcare aspects related to
pain management and nursing professionals
helped to understand the effectiveness of the
pain management conditions (Herr et al., 2018).

The second strategy
 Another strategy that was found from the latest
research articles identified that nursing
professionals and their knowledge regarding the
process should be improved so that they could
take the pain management related aspects
effectively.
 This intervention highlighted nursing
professionals are directly associated with pain
related condition of patients (Song et al., 2015).

How these strategies would
help me as a nursing
professionals
 As per (), it was found that majority of
healthcare professionals that were associated
with pain management were associated with
critical knowledge.
 Hence, it was important that the nursing
professionals should be aware of the pain
management aspects associated with it.

References
Herr, K., St Marie, B., Gordon, D. B., Paice, J. A.,
Watt-Watson, J., Stevens, B. J., ... & Young, H. M.
(2015). An interprofessional consensus of core
competencies for prelicensure education in pain
management: curriculum application for
nursing. Journal of Nursing Education, 54(6),
317-327. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20150515-02
Song, W., Eaton, L. H., Gordon, D. B., Hoyle, C., &
Doorenbos, A. Z. (2015). Evaluation of evidence-
based nursing pain management practice. Pain
Management Nursing, 16(4), 456-463. DOI:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.pmn.2014.09.00
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