First up in our Bachelor of Nursing (Hons) feature: Ellie Davies. Ellie is a nurse in a private surgical setting & her project examined preoperative education and elective gynaecology patient satisfaction with postoperative pain management #NursingResearch [1/6]
Why is this important? Elective surgical gynaecology patients report high postoperative pain. Preoperative pain education can have a positive impact on patient experience, but there is a lack of evidence specific to gynaecology patient experience in Aotearoa, New Zealand [2/6]
Ellie used a retrospective cross-sectional study design. 165 gynaecology surgical patients completed an online survey. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and deductive coding analysis of open-ended question responses. [3/6]
This study found when patients received preoperative education, postoperative pain management was positively impacted in all measured domains. Expectations of pain, communicating pain and post-discharge pain management were particularly important to patients. [4/6]
Another important finding was that patients undergoing gynaecological procedures considered more minor or less invasive experienced the highest pain & dissatisfaction, but received the least preoperative education. Clear implications for clinical practice, here. [5/6]
Ellie's Bachelor of Nursing (Honours) research project was supervised by @MelOliverSmith and @CerebralNurse.
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