Determination of Measurement Plan: ICU Nurses’ Challenges in Implementing a Pain Assessment Tool with Adult Nonverbal Patients

Measurement plan methodology was applied for collecting the data, as well as the identified sources of data. These are components of the approach for measurement selected for a project. The overall context of the measurement plan for the quality improvement project is to measure nurses’ challenges when conducting pain assessment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with a patient who is unable to self-report. The significant part of the improvement project is a measurement plan, to address and develop a suitable way of assessing patient pain in the ICU. The recommendation is to employ the pain assessment tool to help nurses assess non-verbal patients’ pain, not to force nurses to use something they do not believe in. The tool should help the ICU nurses to assess the patients’ pain clearly and it should not increase their workload.