My patient is an eighty-one year old female experiencing pain after a fall, which led to a broken wrist and a laceration to her forehead. This acute pain has led to loss of appetite, decreased energy level, and disinterest. Before her fall, she had previous acute pain related to compression fractures in her spine. Her knowledge of pain management before her fall was insufficient. Teaching my patient how to manage her pain will hopefully lead to better health.
Teaching my patient how to maintain her pain would aid in improving her comfort level. Impaired comfort related to acute pain would be my top priority nursing diagnosis in teaching my patient. Improving her comfort level will also improve her rest patterns, as well as her appetite. Comfort can have a lot to do with other factors dealing with health. Along with her pharmalogical pain management, relieving her impaired comfort will promote improved pain management by means of nonpharmacological management of pain (Nurse’s Pocket Guide, 2013, p.212).
To accomplish learning about pain management there are goals and learning needs that will need to be met in order to obtain this. Firstly, she will need to understand pain and the quality of pain of which she is experiencing. According to the International Association for the Study of Pain and the American Pain Society pain is… “An unpleasant sensory or emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage” (Fundamentals of Nursing, 2011, p. 726).
Along with understanding what pain is, she will need to understand the quality of pain. Learning about the quality of pain will help her to communicate better when she is in pain. Numerous adjectives are used to express what qua...
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In conclusion, I believe that pain is something that no one should have to live with. Interacting with my patient, I can see that pain is a major part of her daily life and activities. By teaching her the different methods I have provided in this teaching plan I believe it will help her live pain free and therefore improve her lifestyle and activity level.
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A. Chronic pain signifies a developing public health issue of huge magnitudes, mainly in view of aging populations in developed countries (Russo).
Have you ever wondered why when you stub your toe on the chair in the living room, it helps tremendously to yell out an expletive or two and vigorously rub the area? I may not be able to discuss the basis for such language in this paper, but we will explore the analgesic response to rubbing that toe, in addition to the mechanism of pain and alternative treatments such as acupuncture and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.
Acute episodes of pain after a sprain, strain or falls, are the usual reasons, but other people present in clinic seeking help for ongoing discomfort for more chronic conditions. Approximately 50% of those with chronic pain ahave musculoskeletal problems, with small proportion developing chronic pain syndromes.The healthcare, economic and personal costs of managing pain are major.
Pain is not always curable but effects the life of millions of people. This essay examines the Essence of Care 2010: Benchmarks for the Prevention and Management of Pain (DH, 2010). Particularly reflecting on a practical working knowledge of its implementation and its relevance to nursing practice. It is part of the wider ranging Essence of Care policy, that includes all the latest benchmarks developed since it was first launched in 2001.
on Pain Care will evaluate the adequacy of pain assessment, treatment, and management; identify and
In the medical profession, personnel are asked to make judgments or draw conclusions based on measureable results. Physical assessments, vitals, CT scan, MRI, biopsy are all activities engaged in to prove abnormalities and make decisions as to the way forward. So having hunches are not considered reliable and rightly so. To decide to give a particular medication because of a mere hunch can lead to serious errors. However, pain which is now considered a part of the vital signs is based on the patients’ philosophy or view point and we (nurses) are told not to ignore but respond. This is highly subjective. It’s viewed how the patient sees it and not as tangible or measurable as the other ways of proving when something is abnormal. The situation to be presented will disclose a patient’s ordeal due to a nurse’s approach to or understanding of pain management. It will also assess whether the nurse responded in accordance to protocol.
...c regimen, prolonged hospitalization, cost, workload on medical team, mortality rate. Moreover, unproductive assessment tool existence leads us to look for other evaluation criteria for pain. This study will aid in adding original information about the presented pain assessment tools and will demonstrate their effectiveness and ability to assess the level of pain in non-communicative patients comparing to The Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT)
Conclusions. An adequate and clear understanding of the concept of pain and implementing interventions of pain treatment and management is essential in the clinical settings. Understanding the concept of pain is necessary for its relationships with other concepts that are related and similar to the pain experience for theory building. The in the end, understanding the concept of pain will ultimately benefit the patient and lead to better and approp...
Pain and suffering is something that we all would like to never experience in life, but is something that is inevitable. “Why is there pain and suffering in the world?” is a question that haunts humanity. Mother Teresa once said that, “Suffering is a gift of God.” Nevertheless, we would all like to go without it. In the clinical setting, pain and suffering are two words that are used in conjunction. “The Wound Dresser,” by Walt Whitman and “The Nature of Suffering and Goals of Medicine,” by Eric J Cassel addresses the issue of pain and suffering in the individual, and how caregivers should care for those suffering.
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Objective: This article was written to increase people’s awareness of leech therapy in healthcare to manage chronic pain. Case studies on were designed to determine whether leeching would improve chronic pain in a safe and effective manner.
...amount of pain) is a great teaching tool for the patient who is able to self-report (Nevius & D’Arcy, 2008). This will put the patient and nurse on the same level of understanding regarding the patient’s pain. The patient should also be aware of the added information included with the pain scale: quality, duration, and location of the pain. During patient teaching, it should be noted that obtaining a zero out of ten on the pain scale is not always attainable after a painful procedure. A realistic pain management goal can be set by the patient for his pain level each day.
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Comfort is important to caring in nursing because it is the nurse 's job to try and help the patient feel at ease and be pain free.
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