TITLE:
Pain Scale: When the Training Influences Its Use
AUTHORS:
Zaira Moura da Paixão Freitas, Carlos Umberto Pereira, Débora Moura da Paixão Oliveira
KEYWORDS:
Pain, Pain Scale, Nurse
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Nursing,
Vol.8 No.2,
February
13,
2018
ABSTRACT:
The aim of
this study was to determine the level of knowledge that nurses in the neonatal
intensive care units (NICU) of a public birth center had about the use of the
Neonatal Infant Pain Scale (NIPS) and to test how their scoring for NIPS changed before and after training. Thirty nurses applied the NIPS
scale to newborns that were procedures
considered painful.
During the first and second evaluations, nurses
diagnosed 30% infants as having pain and 70% infants as having an absence of
pain. In the third and fourth evaluations, after the NIPS parameters had been
explained, we observed an increase in the number of infants diagnosed with the
presence of pain (65%). The results indicate the importance of formal training
for the systemic evaluation of pain in newborns.