Abstract

Purpose: To assess nursing practice on non-pharmacological pain management and its associated factors in health institutions in North West, Ethiopia, 2017.

Methodology: An institution based cross-sectional study was conducted among 583 randomly selected nurses from 10^th April 2017 to 10^th May 2017. A pre-tested, structured and self-administered questionnaire was used. Multivariable logistic regression was employed to determine predictors of the outcome variable. P-value <0.05 at 95% confidence interval was considered as significant.

Results: About 64% of the nurses had a satisfactory level of practice in the thermal regulation application, but on the rest types of non-pharmacological pain management, nurses had an unsatisfactory level of practice. Age, level of education, years of experience and having previous class on non-pharmacological pain management were the main determinants of nurses’ practice of non-pharmacological pain management in multivariable logistic regression model. Therefore, this study concludes that many factors were interwoven to affect nursing practice on non-pharmacological pain management which intern needs multi-sectorial collaborations.

Keywords: Nurse; Practice; Non-pharmacological; Pain management; Ethiopia