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[Dialogues with nurses about oncologic pain assessment of patients under palliative care]

Roberta Waterkemper1, Kenya Schmidt Reibnitz, Marisa Monticelli

  • 1Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Enfermagem, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Grupo de Pesquisa Educação em Enfermagem e Saúde, Florianópolis, SC. robswater@yahoo.com.br

Revista Brasileira De Enfermagem
|June 4, 2010
PubMed

It is an experience report developed next to nurses of a public hospital of Florianópolis-SC, about pain measurement of cancer patient in palliative cares. A total of six nurses had participated of six meeting distributed at three educative moments of this practical. The analysis of undertaken dialogue evidenced that, for the nurses, measurable and objective data are not only enough to measure pain. According to them, it is imperative consider biopsicosociais aspects, valuing integrally the pain that the patient relates. The concluding nurses detach that she has necessity to construct a pain measurement systematization to allow strengthens the importance of pain control to base the practical one, make possible the register of information and the continued education.

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