Volume 14, No. 4 -- 2001
Expanding nurses' role in pain management: International news on nurse prescribing
- Australia finalizes standards for advanced nursing practice
- US nurse practitioners prescribe independently in 12 states
- New UK standards allow nurses to prescribe for palliative care
- Pain management nurses empowered in Uganda
- New Zealand nurses can prescribe within the scope of palliative care
- Skills required of nurses who manage pain in advanced cancer and AIDS
- Existing models of prescribing by nurses
New resources about advance practice nursing in pain control & palliative care
RESEARCH IN CANCER PAIN AND PALLIATIVE CARE:
Advances in pain management nursing practice
- Knowledge of organization's policy can affect clinical practice
- Physician - nurse collaboration is a learned behavior
- The challenges of the nurse-physician collaboration in cancer pain management
- Nurses dissatisfied with working conditions in hospitals: a global problem
- One-day workshop improves pain knowledge and attitudes of postgraduate nurses
- Community initiative raises awareness of pain management in multiple clinical settings
- Home care nurses better at assessing than managing pain
- Pain Monitoring Program improves administration of analgesics by nurses
- Practice setting and education influence cancer pain knowledge
- Nurses and physicians disagree about pain assessments