The influence of personal values and patient intoxication on nurses concerns about opioids: results of a prospective cross-sectional multi-centre study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nurses are the main administrators of opioids in hospitals and enjoy some autonomy when using them to manage pain. Nevertheless evidence suggests they exercise this freedom restrictively with the reasons for this self-limitation remaining unclear. Nurses are influenced by personal and professional values and by patients' attributes. Intoxicated patients pose a particular challenge. This study therefore investigated whether cautious attitudes towards opioids were aggravated in intoxicated patients and influenced by personal values.

Methods

A two-version questionnaire was developed. Each presented a case vignette describing a patient in acute pain who was either intoxicated or not intoxicated. Questionnaires contained identical case statements inquiring about concer

SUBMITTER: Heckroth A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7882770 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature