Innovations in Pain Assessment and Management in Critical Care Nursing
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 7
Special Issue Editors
2. Centre for Nursing Research and Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada
Interests: critical care nursing; pain measurement; pain management; critically ill adult
2. Centre for Nursing Research and Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada
Interests: critical care populations; coping and resilience; health measurement and psychometrics; family-centered care nursing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As reported in a recent publication in Nursing Open [1], the majority of hospitalized patients in critical care settings experience pain, which represents an ongoing problem. Pain is challenging to assess due to critical illness and intensive care treatment altering the communication of pain. Adapted methods of pain assessment and technology innovations are crucial in allowing the detection and appropriate treatment of pain in the most vulnerable individuals. Unrelieved pain can lead to deleterious consequences for patients, including acute complications (e.g., hemodynamic instability, infection), prolonged stress, and chronic pain, which negatively affect quality of life. With the upcoming update to the World Health Organization’s international pain management standards, research is vital in informing best pain management practices and their sustainable implementation for improved quality of care and recovery.
This Special Issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) will focus on topics related to innovations in pain assessment and management across the lifespan of critically ill populations. Any advances and new discoveries in biopsychosocial pain assessment and management at the individual, family, or community level, including methodological papers, reviews, research studies (e.g., qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research), and brief research reports will be considered. We encourage contributing authors from critical care nursing and other disciplines to submit manuscripts and discuss the clinical implications of their research, as to make this Special Issue the latest synthesis of cutting edge knowledge on pain assessment and management in critically ill populations.
[1] Claivaz, V.; Benmachiche, M.; Santoro, Z.; Hadorn, F.; Mabire, C. Pain in Hospital: A Real-Word Data Analysis. Nurs. Open 2025, 12, e70126. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.70126.
Prof. Dr. Céline Gélinas
Dr. Geneviève Laporte
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- acute pain
- procedural pain
- chronic pain
- pain assessment
- pain measurement
- pain management
- pain resilience
- critical care nursing
- intensive care
- critically ill populations
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