ASPMN® Position Statements

  1. Guidelines on Monitoring for Opioid-Induced Sedation and Respiratory Depression: Revisions (Approved June 2019)

  2. “Pain Assessment in the Patient Unable to Self-Report” (Approved: 2019)

  3. New: Range Orders in the Management of Pain (Revised November 2023) – This is a joint statement from: American Society for Pain Management Nursing® and American Pain Society (Approved: 2018)

  4. Authorized Agent Controlled Analgesia – A position paper with clinical practice guidelines (Approved: August 2013)
  5. Pain Management at the End of Life (Revised: October 2017, Orginally approved: August 2013)
  6. Male Infant Circumcision Pain Management (Revised July 2021)
  7. Monitoring for Opioid-Induced Advancing Sedation and Respiratory Depression in Adults (Revised August 2021)
  8. Deceptive Use of Placebos in the Assessment and Management of Pain (Revised July 2021)
  9. Procedural Pain Management Position Statement (Revised 2022)
  10. Registered Nurse Management and Monitoring of Analgesia By Catheter Techniques 

  11.  Prescribing and Administering Opioid Doses Based Solely on Pain Intensity: Update of a Position Statement by the American Society for Pain Management Nursing (Revised February 2022)