Adequate Pain Assessment In Acute Care Practice

Assessment of pain is an important step to provide good pain control. There is one of the most problematic barriers to achieve good pain control pain, lack of evaluation. There are guidelines for what constitutes a recommendation proper pain assessment; however, many of the recommendations seem unrealistic in acute care practice. Nurses work with patients hospitalized with acute pain; they need to select the appropriate elements of the assessment of the current clinical situation. The most important aspect of pain assessment is that it uses a standard format periodically performed on. The evaluation parameters are explicitly hospital or unit policy oversight and procedures. To must meet the requirements of the patient should be re-evaluated after each intervention to assess the effect of pain and determine whether need to modify. The time frame for the re-evaluation should oversee the hospital or unit policies and procedures. The Joint Commission has established an ordinary for the assessment and treatment of pain according to the recommendations of clinical practice guidelines for acute pain. The Joint Commission is required to select a hospital using the same pain
He complained pain related to abdominal pain even he got Demerol. His pain was not relieved through Demerol. So I and other nurses didn’t know why and we tried to pain management through assessment. After a few hours, the doctor found patient record and medical history. Finally, he was addict to Demerol. Actually, drug addiction is not usual, it is so rare. This is why I’m still remembering him. Through counseling with his doctor and he went to the psychiatric floor in order to treatment his addiction. At the first, he had pancreatitis and he got pain management through Demerol several times a day for not a short term. After being addict the drug, he look around most hospital Emergency room for the