Nursing Knowledge of Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease and Judgment of Pain
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2014-05
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The Ohio State University
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The aim of the project was to measure nursing knowledge and judgment regarding adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease using two published instruments. The cohort of nurses who participated scored high in knowledge of SCD and rated patients needs for analgesia and pain high whether the patient presented with no behaviors of addiction, behaviors resembling addiction, or behaviors of genuine addiction.
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Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease, Nursing Knowledge, Nursing judgment