Critical care nurses' judgement of pain status

Critical care nurses' judgement of pain status: A case study design. Intensive & critical care nursing, August 2012, Vol.28(4), p.215-23.

Connor, L.O.

http://www.intensivecriticalcarenursing.com/article/PIIS0964339712000055/abstract?rss=yes

In the performance of their professional activities, critical care nurses routinely make important judgements based on uncertain, fallible and inter-substitutable data. It is anticipated that this study will make visible the strategy by which critical care nurses use and combine multiple fallible cues, of which little is known, to reach a judgement about the pain status of the ventilated patient after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.