Barriers to Pediatric Postoperative Pain Management—Interprofessional Focus Group Interviews

Establishing best practices and ensuring adherence is a leadership responsibility. Furthermore, a lack of adherence to established routines of pain management might be a consequence of professional inexperience and lack of competence, as well as a symptom of lack of trust between professions and professionals. It is important that leaders of both nurses and physicians facilitate arenas for discussing these topics. A culture of evidence-based PPPM needs to be interprofessional and inclusive of different perspectives and facilitate open discussions.