Assessment of pain http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing-practice/clinical-specialisms/pain-management/assessment-of-pain/1861174.article 18 September‚ 2008 | By Sharon Wood Assessment and diagnosis for succesful pain management To provide optimal patient care‚ nurses require appropriate knowledge‚ skills and attitudes towards pain‚ pain assessment and its management. This must be based on the best available evidence to prevent patients from suffering harm (NMC‚ 2008 ). It is unacceptable for patients
Premium Pain
Pain Killers COM 220 2/21/10 Even though people do not believe they are addicted‚ painkillers are addicting because painkillers that are being misused are deadly and they are a hard habit to break. Many people are using and abusing painkillers which are prescription drugs and some may say that they are not and will not admit it. The effects of prescription abuse are painfully obvious and needed at the same time. Having a habit can lead to painkillers being addicted
Premium Drug addiction Addiction Morphine
Pilot Project: The Chronic Pain Diary Student: Hetal Patel Nurs 260 Semester – II Teacher: Mary McGrory March 17‚ 2009 Article evaluation The nursing journal “Pilot Project: The Chronic Pain Diary” is an assessment of chronic pain in the Nursing home population. The author of this journal is Dr. Kathy K Hager and Dr. Dorothy Brockopp. Dr. Hager is an Assistant Professor of Nursing in Bellarmine University Lansing School of Nursing from Louisville – Kentucky and Dr
Premium Nursing Geriatrics Nursing home
List A: Pharmacological and complementary treatment of knee pain Knee pain is an immobilizing symptom from various of diseases and particularly important to treat in the elderly population. Knee pain accounts for 1.9 million visits to general practitioners and 1 million visits to emergency departments annually. Through history taking‚ focusing on red flags that the patients might present with‚ through physical examination‚ and understanding knee anatomy‚ physicians are able to make the diagnosis
Premium Medicine Pain Patient
me stop to examine and study‚ he aptly named Youthful Pleasures (See Fig. 1.) After speaking with the local curator about Pino and his work coupled with my continued analysis‚ I hope to be able to understand the warmth and closeness he felt while painting this exquisite piece and the love between mothers and their children. Pino created Youthful Pleasures to show us the celebration known as love‚ specifically the love between mother and child together with the warmth and closeness that it brings
Premium Art History of painting Oil painting
Pain and Gain Love is something we all feel. Towards family‚ lovers‚ or friends‚ it is always there‚ no matter how hard you try to push it away. Siddhartha felt much love on his way towards enlightenment. He loved Govinda‚ so he set him off to be on his own with the Buddha. He loved Kamala‚ even though it wasn’t LOVE love‚ he respected her so I believe he had a sort of friendly love of Kamala. He also loved his son‚ and the pain he went through in letting his son go and live his life got him
Premium Love Hermann Hesse
Lyrical Pain Laura AM Peffer Virginia College Lyrical Pain Music dates back over 40‚000 years where most music was influenced by natural surroundings like animal sounds and wind whistling through the trees. Now‚ most musical influence comes from the experiences and emotions the songwriter faces at the time. A quote of Bob Marley‚ a well-known Rastafarian singer‚ states “One good thing about music: when it hits you‚ you feel no pain.” This quote envelops the idea that
Premium Emotion
Any pain that is experienced for more than 3 months is referred to as chronic pain. Chronic pain can either be continuous or episodic depending on the individual’s experience. According to the American Pain Society (2015) “nearly 50 million American adults have significant chronic pain or severe pain. Prevalence rate for females is 34.3% and for men it is 26.7%”. Each individual experiences chronic pain differently such as type‚ timing and location of pain. Pain may be described as dull‚ sharp‚ burning
Premium Pain Major depressive disorder Medicine
9/7/2012 English 101 On a scale from 1 to 10 "The Pain Scale" by Eula Biss is a very controversial and interesting piece of writing in which Bliss attempts to determine a scale to measure her pain. However‚ the writer begins to realize that the duty of associating pain with a number and measurement is much harder than it appears due to the fact that she is unsure what it truly means to "measure things". The practice of giving pain a set of numbers was introduced by the hospice movement in
Premium Pain Suffering
Case 5 – Pelvic Pain in a 36 year old Woman 1.0 History 1.1 Presenting Complaint A 36 year old woman presented with 4/12 history of suprapubic pain‚ radiating to her lower back and legs. The pain is worse at the start of her menstrual cycle (pain scale 8/10) and is intermittent‚ but not fully relieved at any time during the month. She also feels like there is pressure on her bowels and her bladder‚ she states she feels as if she needs to pass urine and faeces “all the time”. Regular paracetamol
Premium Symptoms Menstrual cycle Medicine