Optimizing the role of the nurse practitioner to improve pain management in long-term care.

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of the nurse practitioner (NP) within an interdisciplinary model of pain management in long-term care (LTC). In a cross-sectional survey, 16 NPs in the Canadian province of Ontario (89%) indicated whether they currently performed and whether they should be performing 33 activities related to pain management and identified barriers to the fulfilment of their pain-management role. Most NPs (81.3%) …