Development of an Application for Nurses in Acute Pain Management
Keywords:
Acute pain management, Development of an applicationAbstract
This report depicts the research and development design to develop an application to help nurses
manage acute pain in their clients. The study comprises two phases: 1) the application development through
literature review and expert consensus and 2) the application’s content validation and user feedback survey.
Research tools included issues for literature review and group discussions, and the questionnaire for the
experts and users. Three experts determined the questionnaire for its content validity with the item-objective
congruence index (IOC) of 0.67-1.00. Six experts in the field and ten users (including nurse administrators
and registered nurses) rated the application for its properties, including appropriateness, discrepancy, and
feasibility. Qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis. Quantitative data were analyzed by means,
and standard deviations.
The findings showed that 1) A mobile phone application called N-MAP (Nurses to Manage Acute
Pain) version 1.0. Pain management in this application was developed based on different concepts, including
the nursing process, ABCDE pain management, and OPQRSTUV for pain assessment. The content analysis
shows the application essential structure comprises background information, user direction, pain assessment,
pain management instructions, and pain reassessment. 2) Overall, the application’s properties were rated
highly ( = 4.41, S.D. = 0.45), with the highest scores for appropriateness ( = 4.46, S.D. = 0.43),
discrepancy ( = 4.44, S.D. = 0.57), and feasibility ( = 4.05, S.D. = 0.82), respectively. We conclude that
the application should be used in a real clinical situation and evaluated for its effectiveness on acute pain
management outcomes.
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