Improving Pain Management through Creative Partnerships

Through the development of diverse partnerships across Stead Family Children's Hospital, we have improved access to a wide variety of evidence-based strategies to decrease pain and empowered patients and families with knowledge of the resources and how to utilize them. We will describe the partnerships we have formed and the outcomes we have measured in selected areas. Examples have included partnerships with our pharmacies to allow patients to purchase numbing cream as well as TENs units. Through a grant, we partnered with other team members to provide over 100 Buzzies to patients who will have regular, ongoing needle procedures at home and in outlying clinics.
Source: Pain Management Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research