Interest: Pain is the main symptom that leads people to seek health care. Many disciplines are involved in pain management; however‚ nurses play a pivotal role in the assessment‚ relief‚ and evaluation of pain. Effective pain management is important to all individuals suffering from pain whether acute or chronic irrespective of their age‚ race or gender. The main reason for this has been a lack of adequate knowledge and attitudes from the nurses as indicated by previous literature. Ineffective pain management
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expected pain in reference to her neuropathic pain. The expected pain is considered as a latent cognitive construct distilled from accumulative negative pain experiences collected over the course of illness. The construct is defined “as patient predictions about future pain and consequences of their conditions”‚ (Janzen et al. 2006) and is believed to be responsible for prolonging the experience of chronic pain.(Main et al. 2010) Chronic pain studies have shown that patients who expect pain to get
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The pain the amputees are complaining about is called phantom limb pain. This pain usually occurs right after an amputation of either an arm‚ leg‚ or a different body part (Flor‚ 2002). Some professionals believe that phantom pain is developed due to the disruption of the nerve activity. These nerves discharge at the place where they were severed during amputation; therefore‚ causing the amputee to feel the pain (King‚ 2006). Other theories believe that phantom pain is all made up in the head. The
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Patient Desire Desires 0 pain‚ will accept 1-2 on 0-10 pain scale. Has incision pain of 2-3 between drsg changes‚ which is controlled by two Percocet‚ has a 6 during changes. Scenario K.C. 43 y.o. female 280 lb‚ I&D of renal abscess 2nd post op day. Being d/c’d home where daughter will do drsg changes. What is Pain? According to (Lewis‚ 2011) The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or
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most of the people who had my same surgery experienced a mild degree of pain and burning sensation‚ and some did not at all‚ instead my experience was really hurting. I think that this has to do with the theory of gate control as the theory integrates psychology into the traditional biomedical model of pain. Indeed‚ I can recognize some other components than the biological ones that play a major role in my excruciating pain. After coming home from the outpatient procedure‚ I had to stay in my
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Too many tears were shed last year at the GSB. Many of my classmates and I went through what I would now consider to have been unnecessary pain and hardship –both academically and socially. It is so easy to look back now and speak of all the things we could have and should have done differently. History has a way of repeating itself‚ not just because people are stubborn and slow learners‚ but also because people may not know history well enough. I believe one of the factors that contributed to the
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there is pain? Love‚ like many things‚ is undoubtedly complex and to define it would be impossible due to its subjectivity. We are told in forms of media and through social norms that love is supposed to be this true‚ authentic experience-regardless of the fact that no one experiences love the same way. A poetic Spanish proverb stated that “Where there is love‚ there is pain”. I believe that in order to be strong while in love‚ we must first become vulnerable and susceptible to pain. Love makes
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“Humanness as the only aesthetic ideal.” Is one of the points that Aimee Mullins makes during her presentation of “My 12 pairs of legs.” at a TED conference in February 2009. She goes on to discuss several experiences in her life as a presenter‚ fashion model and athlete that instigated further exploration of this point which in turn shaped how she saw herself and other people that society has viewed as disabled. She wanted the viewer to take into consideration that we need to assign different values
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Sciatic Pain For years‚ sciatic pain has been closely associated with professional drivers. Sciatic pain originates in the lower back and travels down the leg. Studies have shown that sciatic pain in professional drivers is closely linked with whole-body-vibration (WBV). Whole-body-vibration is believed to cause sciatic pain because of the effect it has on the spinal system. The article published in Ergonomics shed light on the fact that whole-body-vibration has an effect on sciatic pain‚ but that
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Phantom movements and pain -an fMRI study in upper limb amputees A Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment was conducted on 14 upper limb amputees who were being compared and assessed with seven fully competent participants. This experiment involved examining the execution of hand and lip movements and imagined movements of the phantom limb or left hand. Fourteen of the participants had part of their upper limb amputated‚ nine of which had lost their right hand. During the experiment
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