DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2020.v08i04.007

Pages: 216-218

Nurses play an important role in pain management; pain may adversely affect quality of life, and indeed, the development of illness itself. Although the means to control pain is available for the majority of cases, the prevalence of pain in health institutions and the community is still high. This project conducted from November 2018 till April 2019 in Basra teaching hospital and aims to assess nurse's knowledge regarding pain management. A hundred five nurses were randomly chosen to identify nurse's knowledge regarding Pain management. The study instrument was comprised of questions taken by written include socio-demographic characteristics and nurse's knowledge regarding pain management. The study revealed that the percentage of female (63.67%) is higher than male (36.23). Field of work distribution showed that the percentage of pediatric (33.34%) and surgery (26.66) more than care unit (20.95) and emergency (19.05%). According to educational level secondary nursing school were the higher percentage (45.78%) other include Medical institute Diplomat (34.18%) Bachelors (20.04). In case of questionnaire knowledge the percentage of correct answers (52.02) while the incorrect were (47.98) were nearly equals, while the mean of score 1.60). The conclusion that the female nurses were higher than male in hospitals, Secondary school nurse were the permeant, most nurses have 1-5 year of experience. Finally the Knowledge's about pain management were not adequate among nurses.