Comfort and Satisfaction Among Women Who Used Different Options for Analgesia During Labor and Birth.

Objective: To determine if comfort and satisfaction with the birth experience differed among women who used nitrous oxide (NO), epidural analgesia, or no analgesia during labor and birth.

Design: Nonexperimental, cross-sectional, between-subjects.

Setting: Maternity care units in three U.

Exploration of Relationships Between Postoperative Pain and Subsyndromal Delirium in Older Adults.

Background: Subsyndromal delirium is associated with serious adverse outcomes of longer lengths of stay, increased long-term care admissions, and higher 6-month mortality rates. Postoperative pain is a risk factor for delirium, but the relationship between pain and the severity of subclinical delirium symptoms is unclear. A better understanding will inform nursing interventions to reduce adverse outcomes associated with delirium symptoms.