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Donna J
 Apr 30, 08 - 11:22 AM |
Pain Link Nurses
Hi all, Do any of you run a link nurse system (for acute in-patients)? If so, can I ask how often they meet, what roles they take (or indeed any other useful info that might help with the setting up of a scheme)? Thanks in hope :-) |
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Fiona Lewis
Apr 30th, 2008 - 3:01 PM |
Re: Pain Link Nurses
Whatever you end up doing at a local level make sure you get them signed up here on Pain Talk - it's been a great support to me in my first Surgical job (and many others I suspect) Fi. |
Angela
May 7th, 2008 - 11:16 AM |
Re: Pain Link Nurses
Hi Donna I've been running an acute pain link nurse group for approx 5 years now. During the first meeting we set out the roles and responsibilities of the link nurses - these mainly involve acting as a ward resource for pain management info and organising dates for people to attend formal / informal pain teaching. Each link nurse has a copy of this info. Most ward areas have a link nurse and an associate link nurse so that if one can't attend the other can. Also, I always say that if theres anyone else on the ward thats free and wants to attend then they will be very welcome I used to send out letters to each nurse to remind them about meetings / give info but I now email the info and track the emails via microsoft outlook so that I can check that they've been read! This also makes it easier to send out minutes / copies of presentations. We meet every 3 months. Getting time off the ward to attend meetings has been a common problem (as you would expect). Some wards can spare a nurse for an hour but other wards find it easier to release the nurse for a whole afternoon. However, there are some wards that never manage to give the nurse time off. To help get around these problems I alternate the length of the meeting - either 1 hour or a full afternoon (1 - 4.30). Obviously even when people plan to attend they can end up getting stuck on the ward so nothing is perfect. Several nurses actually go to the extent of requesting a day off work and then come in their own time to the meeting! For the 1 hour meeting I have 1 speaker but for the afternoon I try to have a theme and several speakers - eg the next meeting is about pain assessment and my plan is to have 3 speakers talking about differnet pain assessment areas - patients with dementia; learning difficulties; different levels of consciousness; pain tools etc. I often get the palliative care nurses to join in as they don't run link nurse meetings themselves. One thing that I do find is that more link nurses attend the meeting when I get outside speakers in (especially reps who bring freebies!) and also it helps if I provide lunch from 12 when its the study afternoon! Hope this helps Angela 
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