Abstract

Integrate the use of use of integrative and multi modal therapies with patients in the emergency department to decrease the intensity of pain and increase patient satisfaction scores. For patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) in acute pain, will the use of whiteboards as a means of communicating the available multi modal pain modalities improve patient satisfaction as evidenced by an increase in Press-Ganey pain satisfaction scores by 10%, three months after implementation?

Author Details

Heather Anne Rodrigues, MSN, RN, CNS, CEN; Erica Granados, MSN, RN, CNS-BC, CCRN

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Non-member

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Poster

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Text-based Document

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N/A

Research Approach

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Keywords:

Emergency Departments, Pain, Communication Tool

Conference Name

Emergency Nursing 2019

Conference Host

Emergency Nurses Association

Conference Location

Austin, Texas, USA

Conference Year

2019

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Multimodal pain management in the emergency department

Austin, Texas, USA

Integrate the use of use of integrative and multi modal therapies with patients in the emergency department to decrease the intensity of pain and increase patient satisfaction scores. For patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) in acute pain, will the use of whiteboards as a means of communicating the available multi modal pain modalities improve patient satisfaction as evidenced by an increase in Press-Ganey pain satisfaction scores by 10%, three months after implementation?