How Effective Pain Management Is Important In Nursing

Pain management is an essential part of nursing. And nurses have a responsibility to adequately manage the patients’ pain, but this doesn't always mean the use of an analgesic. Effective pain management can be holistic in its approach. The important aspect is to have a control that is safe, practical, and realistic in the outpatient setting. We are our patients’ friend in the management of their pain. Without a doubt, uncontrolled pain can result in devastating effects. It's important to remember that effective pain management requires the attention of all members of the care team. We spend a great amount of time with our patients and they trust on our knowledge and expertise. By thinking critically, by using our services, by communicating with our patients, by being careful in our evaluation, and by being persistent in our efforts, we can make an impressive difference in our patients’ experience of pain.
Assessment of a patient’s experience of pain is a crucial element in providing effective pain management. A structured process of pain assessment, measurement and re-assessment (re-evaluation), increases the health care team ability to reach: a reduced experience of pain, greater comfort, improved physiological, and physical function and more satisfaction
Patients experiences of pain is their own, and through their expression nursing staff learn to be most professionally accountable and responsive. Nurses have difficulty trying to understand what is happening behind the closed eyelids of people in pain to gain insight into how they are responding, enduring and coping. While only the patient can give pain meaning, the situation is dependent on the nurse being able and ready to hear patient’s expressions of pain. Unless information about the pains existence is intentionally found or shared, it may remain