Directors of Nursing Talk Pain Relief in Long-Term Care Facilities
Start Date
2023 2:15 PM
Location
Alter Hall Poster Session 1 - 3rd floor
Abstract
Long-term care homes are meant to give elderly and disabled individuals the best quality of life which can require helping residents maintain their physical wellbeing. As individuals lose the ability to perform daily living activities, pain can become a huge hinderance especially if pain persist. When working in Long Term Care (LTC) homes, the client must be placed at the center of care particularly when dealing with pain relief. The Director of Nursing (DON) job is to coordinate and oversee the nursing care off all residents in the facility and manage communication and delivery of care, including pain relief. Some research alludes that poor pain relief can be a result of low revenue in facilities. In this study, I speak with DONs at facilities with different affluence to explore if residents’ payor source has any impact on the different ways that facilities provide pain relief. While the study cannot claim definitively if there is a significant relationship between a resident’s payor source and avenues typically available for pain relief, it will look further into pain relief and determine first, the different ways it is treated and create a foundation for more studies in the future.
Directors of Nursing Talk Pain Relief in Long-Term Care Facilities
Alter Hall Poster Session 1 - 3rd floor
Long-term care homes are meant to give elderly and disabled individuals the best quality of life which can require helping residents maintain their physical wellbeing. As individuals lose the ability to perform daily living activities, pain can become a huge hinderance especially if pain persist. When working in Long Term Care (LTC) homes, the client must be placed at the center of care particularly when dealing with pain relief. The Director of Nursing (DON) job is to coordinate and oversee the nursing care off all residents in the facility and manage communication and delivery of care, including pain relief. Some research alludes that poor pain relief can be a result of low revenue in facilities. In this study, I speak with DONs at facilities with different affluence to explore if residents’ payor source has any impact on the different ways that facilities provide pain relief. While the study cannot claim definitively if there is a significant relationship between a resident’s payor source and avenues typically available for pain relief, it will look further into pain relief and determine first, the different ways it is treated and create a foundation for more studies in the future.
