Stage 1- educational intervention
A thinking task force that structured the educational intervention and its assessment was composed of the Director of the Internal Medicine Department, an intern, a nurse who served as pain trustees in the department, and pain specialists from the Institue for Pain Medicine at Rambam medical center in Haifa, Israel. This cooperation led to the development of the educational intervention, which included the following 4 tools: Satisfaction and knowledge questionnaires (Appendices A + B), Pain relief Protocol (Appendix C) and Weekly Training sessions (Appendix D).