The knowledge of nurses in pain management and use of ONON-DRUG methods

The study was carried out as a descriptive study in order to examine the nurses' pain management and the use of non-drug methods. The research was conducted by face-to-face interviews with 169 nurses working in the Internal-Surgical and Intensive Care Unit of Mersin University Health Research and Application Center in September and October 2018. The personal information form, the Knowledge and Behavioral Scale of Nurses Pain and Non-Drug Methods Form were used to collect the data. Data were evaluated using SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistics 24). In the evaluation of the data, tablo Mann-Whitney U us test (Z-table value),) Kruskal-Wallis H "test (ney 2-table value) methods were used. Nurses participating in the study, 15 (%8.9) of high school graduates, 144 (%85.2) of the bachelor 's degree, 10 (%5.9)' was determined to be a graduate. Of the nurses, 117 (%69.2) were female, and the mean age was 29.72 ± 5.54 and 96 (%56.8) were under 30 years of age. In pain management 88 (%52.1) were found to use pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods. The pain information of the nurses, attitude survey, high school graduates 5.46 ± 1.88 and 5.99 ± 2.41 points of the graduate nurses were found to be close to the average of the average score. There was no statistically significant difference between the knowledge scores and education level of the nurses about the pain and the duration of the study (p>0.05). As a result, it was determined that nurses did not have sufficient knowledge about pain diagnosis and knowledge of non-pharmacological management of pain.