Purpose and Hypotheses of the Study The study by Mercedes Stanley and Deborah Pollard (2013) had three purposes. One was to examine the pediatric nurse’s ability and level knowledge to assess the management of pediatric pain. The second purpose of this study was to examine how a nurse’s prior experience would affect the attitude and ability to competently administer pediatric pain management to patients. A third purpose was to observe the level of self-efficacy among a group of North Carolina pediatric nurses in acute care. This study was conducted because the authors believed in the importance of pain management and they wanted to see how pediatric nurses managed patients pain. The authors also wanted to understand the cross-sectional
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They also realize that the amount of education that the nurses had received about pain management had not been taken into consideration. The nurses who had an interest in pain management may have been the ones who agreed to participate in the research study. If the nurse did not have an interest in pain management, he or she might not have chosen to participate and therefore the results could have been much lower. When evaluating the nurse’s knowledge, the researchers agreed that the knowledge deficit on pain management, which was identified at less than 85%, should be investigated. Further education and research would benefit the pediatric nurses and the patients. Assessing the nurse’s perceived needs and education might provide the researchers with an idea of how important pain management is to the …show more content…
The majority of survey responders were women. I think this is a cultural issue because society often stereotypes nurses as women. Some people believe that women should be nurses and men should be doctors. The out of the 25 participants only two were men. In my opinion, I believe that this study does not give a broad overview on how different gendered nurses across the world manage pain. The results found in the study can not accurately account for hospitals that exist across the world. Another cultural issue that occurred in this study is that ethnicity was not accounted for. Ethnicity is an important cultural factor and the researchers did not discuss the race, ethnicity, or nationality of the
They also realize that the amount of education that the nurses had received about pain management had not been taken into consideration. The nurses who had an interest in pain management may have been the ones who agreed to participate in the research study. If the nurse did not have an interest in pain management, he or she might not have chosen to participate and therefore the results could have been much lower. When evaluating the nurse’s knowledge, the researchers agreed that the knowledge deficit on pain management, which was identified at less than 85%, should be investigated. Further education and research would benefit the pediatric nurses and the patients. Assessing the nurse’s perceived needs and education might provide the researchers with an idea of how important pain management is to the …show more content…
The majority of survey responders were women. I think this is a cultural issue because society often stereotypes nurses as women. Some people believe that women should be nurses and men should be doctors. The out of the 25 participants only two were men. In my opinion, I believe that this study does not give a broad overview on how different gendered nurses across the world manage pain. The results found in the study can not accurately account for hospitals that exist across the world. Another cultural issue that occurred in this study is that ethnicity was not accounted for. Ethnicity is an important cultural factor and the researchers did not discuss the race, ethnicity, or nationality of the