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Distinguish between Qualitative and Quantitative research
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Distinguish between Qualitative and Quantitative research
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Post-Operative Pain Management Ani Navasarkian Mount Saint Mary’s University NUR 138: Research in Nursing May 30, 2016 Post-Operative Pain Management Ineffective postoperative pain relief among both children and adults is frequently reported. Health care personnel, including nurses, have a duty to do all they can in order to avoid preventable pain among their patients. Pain is included in the vital signs; it is also the most common sign reported in the clinical setting. When pain management is successful, patients’ length of stay is reduced, patient satisfaction is increased, and readmission is less likely. Nurses assess this individual/subjective experience by asking the patient to rate their pan level using the Numeric Rating Scale (Samuels & Manworren, 2014). The following quantitative and qualitative research studies will more deeply examine the pain management experience in postoperative patients. Synopsis: Qualitative Research Study “Postoperative pain management experiences among school-aged children: A qualitative study” (Sng, et al., 2013) is a qualitative study. Its specific design is a descriptive phenomenology. The researchers collected data from December 2010 to January 2011 by conducting semi-structured interviews. The research question was: How do school-aged children experience postoperative pain management? The sample was 15 school-aged children, 10 males (66.7 %) and 5 females (33.3%). Sixty percent (n=9) of the children were Chinese, 26.7% (n=4) were Malay, 0.07% was Indian (n=1), and 0.07% was Pilipino (n=1). The average age was 10.2 years old. The study took place at pediatric surgical units of a Singapore hospital. Findings showed that children experienced several pain management methods ... ... middle of paper ... ...tween all cognitive-behavioral approaches, children most often used distraction to deal with their postoperative pain. 19 patients had 7+ co-existing conditions; average pain scale was 3.25; patients in Hospital B had higher pain levels; nurses in Hospital A had more interventions than Hospitals B and C; and assessment frequencies stay consistent, despite patient characteristics. Appraisal/Worth to Practice This study shows the impact that health care professionals and parents have on the postoperative child in dealing with his/her pain. Children in the postoperative condition should be provided with non-pharmacological methods before the pharmacological ones. Nurses play a big role in children’s pain relief and should build a trusting relationship with them. Nurses can calculate and use the pain management value index to examine and enhance the worth of nursing.