Pain Management Nursing
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 61-69 , June 2011

Concept Analysis of Nurses' Identification of Pain in Demented Patients in a Nursing Home: Development of a Hybrid Model

  • Sung Ok Chang, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • College of Nursing, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Younjae Oh, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • College of Nursing, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Eun Young Park, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • College of Nursing, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Geun Myun Kim, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Far-East University, Eumseong, Korea
    • ,
  • Suk Yong Kil, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, CHA University, Pochon, Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Suk Yong Kil, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, College of Health Science CHA University, 198-1 Donggyo-dong, Pochon-si, Gyeonggi-do 487-010, Korea.

Received 25 October 2009 ,Revised 16 May 2010 ,Accepted 26 May 2010.

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 Supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea grant funded by the Korean government (KRF-2008-531-E00095).

PII: S1524-9042(10)00086-X

doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2010.05.007

Pain Management Nursing
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 61-69 , June 2011

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