To investigate application effects of the pain nursing operation flowchart in the management of cancer pain patients.

Eighty-two patients were divided into the control group (40 patients) and the study group (42 patients) according to the admission time using the convenience sampling method. The patients in the control group received routine nursing. In the study group the pain nursing operation flowchart was designed based on the adult cancer pain guideline and the establishment standard of cancer pain standardized treatment example wards. The nursing form was designed corresponding to the flowchart. The standardized training was carried out in all nurses in the department for the improvement of their operation standardization. The comprehensiveness and the dynamics of the pain assessment, the timeliness of communicating with doctors, the comprehensiveness of pain propaganda and education, the timeliness of the management of adverse reactions and the satisfaction degree of discharged patients in the two treatment groups were evaluated.

For the quality inspection of pain nursing of the patients in the study group, after using the flowchart, the qualified rates of the comprehensiveness and the dynamics of the pain assessment, the timeliness of communicating with doctors, the comprehensiveness of pain propaganda and education, the timeliness of the management of adverse reactions were 100.0%, 100.0%, 95.2%, 100.0%, 97.6%, respectively; the satisfaction degree of discharged patients was 97.6%, all of which were significantly higher than those in the control group (χ²= 9.31, 6.80, 4.44, 8.04, 7.74, 4.18; P<0.05).

The application of the pain nursing operation flowchart in standardized wards of cancer pain can significantly improve the quality of pain management, which achieves good social benefits and worthy of promotion.

Pain management; Standardized wards of cancer pain; Nursing operation flowchart; Quality control