Help focus your facility on pain management
Help focus your facility on pain management
These are the elements of an institutional commitment to the relief of pain:
• Develop an interdisciplinary work group.
• Analyze the current pain management practices in your care setting.
• Articulate and implement a standard of practice.
• Establish accountability for pain management.
• Provide information about pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions to clinicians to facilitate order writing and interpretation and implementation of orders.
• Promise patients a quick response to their reports of pain.
• Provide education for staff.
• Continually evaluate and work to improve the quality of pain management.
Source: Based on the recommendations of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and the American Pain Society’s quality improvement commitments.
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