Perspectives of nurses regarding pain assessment and management during routine infant vaccination in Ghana

Emma Annan; Tendani S. Ramukumba; Bonnie J. Stevens

doi:10.1002/nop2.1772

Perspectives of nurses regarding pain assessment and management during routine infant vaccination in Ghana

Emma Annan, Tendani S. Ramukumba, Bonnie J. Stevens

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Aim: To explore the perspectives of nurses regarding pain and its management during routine infant vaccination at the Child Welfare Clinics in Ghana. Design: Qualitative descriptive design. Methods: Qualitative in depth, in-person interviews using a semistructured interview guide were conducted with 19 Registered Nurses who were were purposively sampled from three selected Child Welfare Clinics in hospitals in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, The Tesch cotent analysis procedure was followed for the analysis of interview data. Results: Nurses were aware that the injections they give infants are painful. They described how infants exhibit certain behaviours to express pain. Although nurses support infant pain management during vaccination, they rarely use evidenced-based pain interventions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5348-5355
Number of pages	8
Journal	Nursing Open
Volume	10
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1772
Publication status	Published - Aug 2023

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