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PubMed1996

Boundaries in the workplace.

Employees in all health care settings are vulnerable to violations of boundaries: crossing that sometimes blurry line drawn between staff and patient. Accepting gifts, financial transactions, and romantic entanglement could lead to various negative consequences for the agency, staff, and patients. Supervisors need to be aware of early warning signs of boundary violations as well as training issues. The authors outline a successful program for addressing these issues and argue for rehabilitating the chronic boundaries violator.

Arizona↗

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Enhancing nurses' reliance on patients' perceptions of pain during pain assessment: a comparison of two educational methods.

The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine if an educational program on pain assessment that includes both knowledge and attitude domains is more effective than a didactic educational offering in encouraging nurses' reliance on patients' self-reports of pain during assessment for pain. Twenty-two registered nurses and seven licensed practical nurses at the Tucson Veterans Affairs Medical Center participated. Group A received a lecture and watched a videotape. Group B received a lecture, watched a videotape, and participated in a group discussion on attitudes. Participants in both groups completed the Pain Management Questionnaire developed by Ferrell, Eberts, McCaffery & Grant (1991). No significant differences were found between groups with respect to results on the pain management questionnaire.

Education, Nursing, Continuing↗