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Teaching Nurses Behavioural Methods for Pain Management: A Pilot Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Keren Fisher ,
Moira Nurse  and
Paul Kennedy
Keren Fisher
Affiliation:
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore
Moira Nurse
Affiliation:
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore
Paul Kennedy
Affiliation:
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore
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Abstract

This study explores the possibility of teaching nurses behavioural tehniques so that patients with intractable pain problems can be treated confidently, and subjective labelling, which obstructs a goal oriented approach, can be avoided.

Three seminars were given which included formal teaching, role-plays and practical between-session tasks.

Of the four assessment procedures used, the nurses showed a significant change in their knowledge of behavioural principles, their attitudes to disabled people, and their response to pain behaviours. Their ability to specify problem behaviour did not improve and some reasons for this are discussed

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Clinical Section
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , July 1989 , pp. 283 - 289
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1989

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