ReviewPain research and treatment2018
The Role of Nurses' Uncertainty in Decision-Making Process of Pain Management in People with Dementia.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Fascia iliaca compartment block as a preoperative analgesic in elderly patients with hip fractures - effects on cognition.BMC geriatrics · 2019Trial
- [Pain and pain management in a nursing home : Results of a cross-sectional study].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2026Article
- Pain and Pain Management in Austrian Nursing Home Residents' Daily Lives: A Qualitative Study Guided by an Integrated Quality of Life Model for Older Adults.Nursing & health sciences · 2026Article
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- Nurses' perception of uncertainty regarding suspected pain in people with dementia: A qualitative descriptive study.PloS one · 2024Article
- Inter-rating reliability of the Swiss easy-read integrated palliative care outcome scale for people with dementia.PloS one · 2023Article
- Pain Interventions for people with dementia: a quasi-experimental study.BMC palliative care · 2022Article
- Hospital Admissions Associated With Cancer Pain in Older Adults With and Without Dementia.Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses · 2021Article
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Abstract
Pain in people with dementia (PWD) is underassessed and undertreated. Treatment of pain in people with dementia goes awry because of poor assessment, poor treatment, and factors related to nursing decision-making skills. Several theoretical models addressed the role of nurses' critical thinking and decision-making skills in pain treatment, like the cognitive continuum theory (CCT) and the adaptive pain management (APT). Only the Response to Certainty of Pain (RCP) model was the first model to posit relationships between nurses' uncertainty, pain assessment, and patient outcomes. Gilmore-Bykovskyi and Bowers developed the RCP, which incorporates the concept of uncertainty and how it relates to the problem of unrelieved pain in PWD. The RCP model has the potential to provide good understanding of the problem of unrelieved pain in people with dementia. It also could help to develop a research study that brings comfort to an often neglected and vulnerable population.
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