Tayler, CarolynMcLeod, Barbara2006-09-192009-09-012006-09-192009-09-012006-09-19Tayler, Carolyn and McLeod, Barbara (2001) Linking nursing pain assessment, decisionmaking and documentation. Canadian oncology nursing journal 11(1):28-32.1181-912Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/561http://hdl.handle.net/10315/561A clinical nurse specialist’s (CNS) experience in the development and implementation of a pain assessment and treatment flowsheet (PATF) to enhance the nursing assessment, decision-making, and documentation of pain on a palliative care unit in a community hospital is described in this article. Members of the palliative care interdisciplinary team use the PATF for clinical decision-making in the day-to-day management of patients’ pain. The PATF is undergoing revision and re-implementation to promote the utilization of the tool beyond the specialty of palliative care and into the general patient population.125574 bytes1803 bytesapplication/pdftext/plainenPalliative treatment--Canada.Pain--Treatment --Canada.Nursing--Canada--Decision making.Article