Marilyn Bazinski, Catherine Lau, Brooke Clemons, Lisa Purser, Amy Kangwankij, Lena Ngo, Michael Lang, Brianna Besen, Kendall Gross, Amber Borucki, Matthias Behrends, Christine Miaskowski, Hildy Schell-Chaple
BACKGROUND: Within the context of the opioid epidemic, changes needed to be made in the prescription and administration of analgesics. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and implementation of a project that utilized a holistic pain assessment framework and introduced new order sets to guide the integration of nonopioid, opioid, and co-analgesics in a quaternary care medical center. METHODS: An interdisciplinary team updated policies and procedures for pain assessment and opioid administration and created new analgesic order sets for both adult and pediatric patients...
March 23, 2024: Pain Management Nursing: Official Journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses