Postoperativ smärta hos yngre barn. En litteraturstudie om sjuksköterskans förmåga att tolka.

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this literature review was to demonstrate the results of recent studies of the nurses ability to interpret younger childrens (0-6 years of age) experiences of pain in the postoperative stage. There is a lack of knowledge concerning young childrens ability to express themselves verbally and the nurse has to rely upon the parents knowledge about the child. Consequently, the teamwork between the nurse and the parents is of great importance in the care of the younger child. Therefore we intend to illuminate this aspect in this paper. This study aims to nurses of all categories, since patients with lack of verbal communication are frequently occurring. The method is a literature review based on nine scientific articles interpretated by Travelbee´s theory of nursing. The result shows that nurses today mainly use the parents as informers of the childrens pain and rarely of pain measurement-scales, even though the teamwork between nurses and parents is not working and is often characterised of suspicion.