Assessment and Management of Postoperative Pain among Nurses at a Resource-Constraint Teaching Hospital in Ghana
Table 1
Examples of the themes and subthemes that emerged from the data analysis.
MEANING UNITS
CONDENSED MEANING UNITS
CODES
SUB-THEMES
THEMES
I think pain is what the person, the patient, says it is. If a patient mentions that he is in pain, it means that he is in pain, irrespective of what the health worker thinks. So post-operative pain is pain as a result of either a minor or major surgical procedure (N1)
(i) pain is what the patient says it is (ii) postoperative pain is as a result of surgery
(i) pain is subjective (ii) operational pain
(i) defining pain (ii) defining postoperative pain
Nurses’ understanding of pain and postoperative pain
Pain is an unpleasant feeling that a patient expresses; it is an unpleasant sensory motor feeling that a patient or a person expresses and can only be expressed or be traced to what the patient verbalizes or says there is. (N3).
