英文摘要 |
The purpose of this present study was to understand the effect of cueing post-operative patients to the use of patient-controlled analgesia(PCA) in controlling post-operative pain. Quasi-exporimontal design was used and purposive sampling was conducted at two general surgical wards of a medical center. Eighty-one sample subjects were randomly assigned into experimental and control groups. Subjects in both groups received an one to one, standard and systematic teaching program that focused on how to use the PCA correctly. A pamphlet regarding the safety of using PCA was also provided to each subject. The only difference between the experimental and control groups was subjects in the experimental group received six times standard active prompting that cued them to use the PCA within 48 hours after the operation. Findings from the study showed that effects of cueing patients to the use of PCA could significant increase the morphine consumption, decrease the intensity of pain and the worries to the use of analgesia: especially in 'fear of addiction', 'attraction for treatment', 'time for injection' and 'afraid of tolerance'. Results of this study suggested that the intervention of cueing patient to use PCA is not only an easy and time-saving nursing intervention, but also has strong effect on the use of analgesia. |