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Introduction: Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) is widely used for the treatment of chronic pain causes the impairment of health-related quality of life (QoL). Nurses, as a membe rof multidisciplinary team, are a health professional that play a role to reducing pain in patients with chronic pain and develop the life qualities of patients by approaching them. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigated quality of life, pain, and patients’ satisfaction levels from nurses of patients that was applicated to pain unit before and after TENS application.Methods: Informed consent and ethical permission were obtained for performed to descriptive and cross-sectional study. Data was collected obtained by nurses using Patients Identification Form, Numerical Rating Pain Scale (NPRS), Short Form 36 (SF 36), and Nurse Saticfaction Form between 22th April 2012-20th February 2013 in a university hospital pain unit before and after TENS. Results:The patients’ mean age was 53.50±16.60, 85.2% of the patients were female, 63.0% has chronical disease. 90.7% was used analgesic drugs. 27.8% of the pain etiology was lumbar disc hernia. It is found that significantly increased to seven subsclaes means of quality of life, expect mental health, decreased to pain mean and increased to satisfaction from nurses mean of the patients with chronic pain after TENS application compared to before. Conclusion: The results showed that improvements in pain and QoL after TENS, and satisfaction from nurses during the process. As a result, it is suggested that TENS can use to reduce for chronic pain and improve for QOL

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