Increasing Provider Self-Efficacy to Manage Chronic Cancer Pain

The United States is currently amid a significant opioid epidemic (Jackson,  2019). In the 1990s, pain was marked as the fifth vital sign and providers were required to effectively treat pain with opioid therapy (Jones et al., 2018). Frequent use of opioids has been associated with opioid tolerance, misuse, and opioid associated mortality (Jones et al., 2018). In 2016 alone there were approximately 42,000 opioid associated-deaths (Jackson, 2019; Jones et al., 2018).
Source: Pain Management Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Quality Improvement Source Type: research