Improper documentation of pain may affect pain interventions in patients because errors in the documentation of pain may increase the risk of morbidity. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between nurses’ compliance in documenting pain assessment at the Aceh General Hospital. Quantitative study with data collection using a questionnaire. The number of samples as many as 253 respondents obtained using accidental sampling technique. The data analysis utilized univariate, bivariate, multivariate data. The results showed that there was a relationship between the nurse complied with the documentation of the pain assessments (p = 0.000). There is a relationship between nurse complied in documenting pain assessment with perception (p-value = 0.003), motivation (p-value = 0.002), and reward (p-value = 0.000). On the other hand, there is no relationship between nurse complied in documenting pain assessment with age (p-value = 0.878), gender (p-value = 0.587), education (p-value = 0.852), length of work, pain (p-value = 0.076), pain attitude (p-value = 0.610), human resources (p-value = 0.933) and leadership (p-value = 1,000). Based on the results of multivariate analysis, it was obtained that reward was the variable that most influenced nurses’ compliance in documenting pain assessment (OR=2,950). There is a need for regular training, monitoring and improvement of pain assessment guidelines with respect to nurse compliance with documentation of pain assessments.

Keywords:  Pain, reward, documentation, King’s goal attainment,

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