Nursing approaches toward postoperative pain of patients: Patients’ options

Abstract

In the study that was carried out as defining, it was aimed to determine options related to nursing practices about postoperative pain experiencing by patients and satisfaction of patients about these practices. Data were collected by two questionnaires that was prepared by researchers. Collected data were evaluated with Chi-square and number, frequency tests. 360 patient participating in this study of them 61.4% were women, 83% over 40 years old and 88% had low education. 60.4% had not surgery experience. It was determined that 30.6% of patients had undergone heart-lung (CVS) and 25.5% gastrointestinal system operation. It was found that 96.4 % of patients had experienced pain while were coughing and 81.9% getting up from the bed and difficulty 96.4%, to coughing 78.3%, mobilization and 46.7% breathing because of postoperative pain.
In the study it was found that patients undergoned CVS, TAH+BSO, GİS operation had experienced more pain while they were coughing and getting up from the bed, patients undergoned dischectomy while they were walking, There were significant difference between types of operation and pain (p<0.05) and activities that patients had difficulty to do and types of operation (p<0.05). The patients said that nurses didn’t use a pain scala, give information about how pain was relieved, show what was needed to do during the activities that cause pain, help the patients to position for relieving the pain, use non-pharmacological interventions. But all of the patients were satisfied with analgesic that was administered by nurses to relieve the pain.