TY - JOUR
T1 - Effectiveness and Dissemination of the Interprofessional Pediatric Pain PRN Curriculum
AU - Manworren, Renee C.B.
AU - Basco, Megan
N1 - Funding Information:
The Pediatric Pain PRN Curriculum was funded by a generous grant from the Mayday Fund. Funding was also provided by the NIH Pain Consortium Centers of Excellence in Pain Education, sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, Contract # BAA N01DA-15-4422. Centers of Excellence in Pain Education (CoEPEs). 2016. REDCap is supported at FSM by the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Science (NUCATS) Institute, and research reported in this publication was supported, in part, by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Grant Number UL1TR001422.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Introduction:Cultural transformation is needed for health care to be sensitive to children's pain. The Pediatric Pain Practice Registered Nurses (PRN) Curriculum is the first free, open access, downloadable, interprofessional pain continuing education (IPPCE) curriculum developed to empower health care professionals to translate evidence-based pain care into clinical practice. To evaluate the curriculum and its experiential flipped-learning strategies, we used a mixed methods approach.Methods:Interprofessional pediatric teams from eight health care systems evaluated the curriculum after attending Pediatric Pain PRN Courses in the Fall of 2017 (N = 90). Qualitative methods were used to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility, and utility of the curriculum and IPPCE strategies. Pain knowledge and attitudes were measured pre-IPPCE/post-IPPCE with the Pediatric Healthcare Provider's Knowledge & Attitude Survey Regarding Pain (PHPKAS). Web analytics were used to describe dissemination for the first year after the curriculum's webpage launch.Results:Learners rated their achievement of course objectives as moderate-great. PHPKAS scores significantly increased (P <.0005); but significant differences in physician and nurse PHPKAS question responses pre-IPPCE/post-IPPCE were found. Within 2 years of the IPPCE, three health care systems were certified as Childkind Hospitals, five Pediatric Pain PRN Programs were established, and various practice changes and improved patient outcomes, such as decreased hospital lengths of stay and emergency department returns for pain, were realized. Curriculum dissemination was global.Discussion:Results support the acceptability, effectiveness, feasibility, utility, and global dissemination of the curriculum and IPPCE strategies. More rigorous patient outcome data are needed; however, this study demonstrated the benefit of a free, open-access, downloadable, interprofessional health care provider continuing education curriculum.
AB - Introduction:Cultural transformation is needed for health care to be sensitive to children's pain. The Pediatric Pain Practice Registered Nurses (PRN) Curriculum is the first free, open access, downloadable, interprofessional pain continuing education (IPPCE) curriculum developed to empower health care professionals to translate evidence-based pain care into clinical practice. To evaluate the curriculum and its experiential flipped-learning strategies, we used a mixed methods approach.Methods:Interprofessional pediatric teams from eight health care systems evaluated the curriculum after attending Pediatric Pain PRN Courses in the Fall of 2017 (N = 90). Qualitative methods were used to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility, and utility of the curriculum and IPPCE strategies. Pain knowledge and attitudes were measured pre-IPPCE/post-IPPCE with the Pediatric Healthcare Provider's Knowledge & Attitude Survey Regarding Pain (PHPKAS). Web analytics were used to describe dissemination for the first year after the curriculum's webpage launch.Results:Learners rated their achievement of course objectives as moderate-great. PHPKAS scores significantly increased (P <.0005); but significant differences in physician and nurse PHPKAS question responses pre-IPPCE/post-IPPCE were found. Within 2 years of the IPPCE, three health care systems were certified as Childkind Hospitals, five Pediatric Pain PRN Programs were established, and various practice changes and improved patient outcomes, such as decreased hospital lengths of stay and emergency department returns for pain, were realized. Curriculum dissemination was global.Discussion:Results support the acceptability, effectiveness, feasibility, utility, and global dissemination of the curriculum and IPPCE strategies. More rigorous patient outcome data are needed; however, this study demonstrated the benefit of a free, open-access, downloadable, interprofessional health care provider continuing education curriculum.
KW - continuing education
KW - flipped-learning strategies
KW - interprofessional education
KW - knowledge dissemination
KW - knowledge translation
KW - pediatric pain curriculum
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U2 - 10.1097/CEH.0000000000000410
DO - 10.1097/CEH.0000000000000410
M3 - Article
C2 - 34862335
AN - SCOPUS:85130863119
SN - 0894-1912
VL - 42
SP - 135
EP - 143
JO - Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions
JF - Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions
IS - 2
ER -