Implementation of the Assessment and Pain Management Guidelines of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) in the Nursing program of the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga

Abstract

Introduction: The nursing program of the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga seeks to innovate with a globalized curriculum that responds to the needs of both the country and the world, to that end, it has been linked to the international project International Best Practice Spotlight Organization, for the implementation at the curricular level of good clinical practices for the assessment and pain management  guidelines based on the scientific evidence of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario. Objective: To reflect on the experience of the implementation of good clinical practices for the assessment and management of pain guidelines of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario in the Nursing program of the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga. Discussion: For the methodology of its implementation, the Institutional Educational Project was considered as a reference framework, educational project of the program of the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga, the implementation tool of good practices proposed by the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario and the gathering of information that would allow to identify the gaps and the implementation actions in the curricular contents regarding the use of clinical practice recommendations, for the assessment and management of pain in the curriculum of the nursing program. Conclusions: Carrying out the information gathering of the curricular contents according to the recommendations allowed identifying the minimum curricula to be guaranteed such as mechanisms of pain, classification, pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, ethical implications, management and strengthening of the professional attitude that allows providing an integral attention program for the human being in each stage of the life cycle. The implementation of good clinical practices of assessment and pain management guidelines will allow an academic impact in the training of future professionals at the nursing program, once the contents related to good practices in the different subjects of the basic, professional and specific component of the new curricular plan are included transversally. [Bonilla-Marciales AP, Jaimes-Valencia ML, Serrano-Gomez SE, Arenas-Luna GI, Padilla-García CI, Criado-Morales ML. Implementation of the Assessment and Pain Management Guidelines of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) in the Nursing Program of the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga. MedUNAB 2017; 20(2): 148-164].