PMID: 9548068Apr 21, 1998Paper

Pain and distress among elderly intensive care unit patients: comparison of patients' experiences and nurses' assessments

Heart & Lung : the Journal of Critical Care
M L Hall-LordB Steen

Abstract

To investigate elderly intensive care unit (ICU) patients' experiences of pain and distress, as well as interventions aimed at reducing these conditions, and to compare these experiences with the way nurses and assistant nurses, respectively, assess their patients' responses related to these issues. Descriptive, correlational, comparative. Two medical-surgical ICUs at county hospitals in two medium-sized cities in Sweden. Fifty-one elderly patients, 44 nurses, and 37 assistant nurses in two Swedish ICUs. Data were collected through personal interviews with patients and questionnaires completed by each nurse and assistant nurse responsible for the patients. Patients' experiences of pain and distress do not fully agree with nurses' and assistant nurses' assessments; nor is there consistency between the views of nurses and those of assistant nurses. Nurses overestimated patients' breathing and intellectual problems. Assistant nurses assessed that patients received more assistance to relieve physical pain, physical discomfort, fatigue, and fear than patients reported. Compared with nurses' assessments, assistant nurses also perceived patients to suffer less from physical discomfort, breathing problems, and fatigue. Nurses need more...Continue Reading

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