Survey on status of pain cognition for clinical nurses from primary hospitals and countermeasures

Objective To study the status of pain cognition for clinical nurses from primary hospitals by survey.Method Investigate 326 clinical nurses from 4 hospitals of Lin'an city by pain cognition questionnaire for clinical nurses from primary hospitals,which includes basic information of nurses,knowledge and attitude on pain management,cognition on possibility of narcotic analgesics addiction and demand on pain training.Result The average score of pain management knowledge and attitude for clinical nurses from primary hospitals is(44.8±3.0).The pass rate is 0.3%.Nurses have severe deviation on cognition of narcotic analgesics addiction and a great demand on pain knowledge training.Conclusion Cognition on pain for clinical nurses from primary hospitals should be improved.Pain management knowledge,systematic training and communication between doctors and nurses should be enhanced to improve quality of pain nursing.