Measurement plan: Icu nurses’ challenges in implementing a pain assessment tool with adult non-verbal patients

Abstract

performance.4 Nurses’ judgements and decisions are closely related to each other.5 While Jacavone et al.6 indicated in their study that nursing judgement is used to manage cardiac pain, there is a lack of knowledge and information about how nurses judge pain levels. According to Herr et al.7 addressed that there is a need to improve the skills and knowledge of healthcare professionals, with the aim of conducting comprehensive pain assessments and understanding various methods to improve health outcomes.