Psychometric Evaluation of the Revised Iowa Pain Thermometer (IPT-R) in a Sample of Diverse Cognitively Intact and Impaired Older Adults: A Pilot Study.

Self-report pain assessment tools are commonly used in clinical settings to determine patients' pain intensity. The Iowa Pain Thermometer (IPT) is a tool that was developed for research, but also can be used in clinical settings. However, its utility in clinical settings is challenging because it uses a 13-point scale (0-12 scale) that does not align with common electronic pain scoring metrics.

Breast cancer navigation and patient satisfaction: exploring a community-based patient navigation model in a rural setting.

Purpose/objectives: To explore patient satisfaction among newly diagnosed patients with breast cancer in a rural community setting using a nurse navigation model.

Design: Nonexperimental, descriptive study.

Setting: Large, multispecialty physician outpatient clinic serving about 150 newly diagnosed patients with breast cancer annually at the time of the study.

Ethnic wait time differences in analgesic administration in the emergency department.

Although many studies have documented ethnic disparities in analgesia administration, few have dealt with the wait time for analgesia in the emergency department, despite the fact that the provision of timely and appropriate analgesia should be a primary goal in caring for patients. Inadequate analgesia has been reported for patients presenting with long bone fractures, and a body of evidence exists indicating that ethnic and minority patients may be receiving inadequate pain care when presenting to the emergency department for treatment of long bone fractures. The purpose of the present research was to determine whether wait time differences in pain treatment existed for ethnic and minority adults (18 years old or older) who were admitted to the emergency department suffering from long bone fractures using a quantitative retrospective design.

Evaluation of the Revised Faces Pain Scale, Verbal Descriptor Scale, Numeric Rating Scale, and Iowa Pain Thermometer in older minority adults.

The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of selected pain intensity scales including the Faces Pain Scale Revised (FPS-R), Verbal Descriptor Scale (VDS), Numeric Rating Scale (NRS), and Iowa Pain Thermometer (IPT) with a cognitively impaired minority sample. A descriptive correlational design was used, and a convenience sample of 68 participants, admitted to acute care facilities in the South, with an average Mini Mental Status Exam score of 23 comprised the sample. Thirty-two percent of the participants were males, and 68% were females.