The prevalence and burden of pain has long been reported as problematic. Comprehensive
pain education in undergraduate programmes is essential for developing knowledgeable …

Introduction: Chronic pain results in significant personal, societal and economic burden.
Doctors and nurses have a pivotal role in patient pain management. In order to determine …

The presence of pain is one of the main reasons why people seek health care, yet pain is
often undertreated. Inadequate treatment has been linked to health care workers' failure to …

BACKGROUND: The presence of pain is one of the main reasons why people seek health
care, however pain is often undertreated. Inadequate treatment has been linked to health …

Abstract The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) has designated 2018 as
the global year for excellence in pain education. Despite advances in pain research, there …

Objective To discover if nursing students have improved their level of pain knowledge and
their attitudes towards pain management over the last 20 years. Design Systematic review …

Nursing staff spend more time with patients with pain than any other health staff member. For
this reason, the nurse must possess the basic knowledge to identify the presence of pain in …

CONTEXT: Absence of standardised pain curricula has led to wide diversity in the
understanding and awareness of pain by healthcare students. Indeed pain management is …

Unmanaged pain is a prevalent problem faced by many cancer patients. One part of this
problem centers on a lack of emphasis on pain management in the undergraduate nursing …

Background: Ineffective assessment and management of pain is a significant problem. A gap
in prelicensure health science program pain content has been identified for the improvement …