A qualitative understanding of nurses ’ challenges with pain management

Before discussing the perceptions and challenges of pain management care delivery, it is first important to describe the magnitude of the opioid epidemic. Of the estimated 50,000deaths related to opioids overdoses in 2019, a staggering 28% of those individuals had a prescription for opioids (Centers for Diseases Control [CDC]a,  2020; WONDER, 2020). The mortality rate has decreased 4.6% from 2017. Similarly the use of opioid prescriptions in the ED (emergency department) has decreased from 38% to 13% from 2012 to 2018, and the use of non-opioid medications increased from 6% to 11% and “no prescription” cases increase d from 56% to 75% over the same timeframe (Gleber et al., 2020).
Source: Nursing Outlook - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research