Publications by authors named "Alison Twycross"
Assisted dying.
Int J Palliat Nurs
February 2022
Background: Pediatric postoperative pain is still undertreated.
Aims: To assess whether educational intervention increases nurses' knowledge and improves pediatric postoperative pain management.
Design: Cluster randomized controlled trial with three measurement points (baseline T1, 1 month after intervention T2, and 6 months after intervention T3).
Using ways of knowing in nursing to develop educational strategies that support knowledge mobilization.
Paediatr Neonatal Pain
December 2020
There are continued challenges in achieving effective pain management for children and young people (CYP). Research has found several barriers to effective CYP pain management, which include, but are not limited to, deficiencies in knowledge among nurses and other healthcare professionals. Calls for improvements in and an increase in pain education ensue, in the expectation that an increase in knowledge will lead to an improved pain care for patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims And Objectives: To describe pain manifestation in children with cancer at home and understand how parents assess this pain.
Background: Pain is experienced by children with cancer throughout their cancer journey. Short-term, and into survivorship, pain has negative physical and psychological consequences.
Article Synopsis
- Children with cancer frequently experience painful needle procedures during their treatment, prompting the need for effective pain management strategies.
- A comprehensive development panel, including healthcare professionals and patient-parent input, created clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) using systematic reviews and evidence-based frameworks.
- Recommendations emphasize the use of topical anesthetics, deep sedation for lumbar punctures, hypnosis, and active distraction techniques to reduce procedure-related pain and distress in pediatric patients.
Children with cancer experience pain throughout their cancer trajectory. Pain has short- and long-term negative consequences for children physically and psychologically. Children with cancer spend more time at home with their families and less time in hospital.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe challenges of being a student nurse and the advice proffered by peers.
Evid Based Nurs
January 2020
EBN engages through a range of Online social media activities to debate issues important to nurses and nursing. Opinion papers highlight and expand on these debates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEBN Perspectives brings together key issues from the commentaries in one of our nursing topic themes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims And Objectives: To explore children's postsurgical experiences with pain and pain management in the recovery unit.
Background: Children's pain is underestimated and undertreated. Untreated pain can cause unnecessary suffering, increased complication risks and may lead to chronic pain.
Professional, financial and ethical reasons necessitate nursing improves its understanding of student attrition. Previous studies identify causes of attrition as multifactorial. However, few studies focus on children's nursing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite readily available evidence to guide practice, children continue to experience moderate to severe pain in hospital postoperatively. Reasons for this may include attitudes of nurses toward pain management and their lack of knowledge in key areas.
Aims: To identify nurses' knowledge and clinical practice of pediatric postoperative pain management and whether there is a link between knowledge and practice.