Clinical Topics - Pain Management
Nurse "I am in Pain"
Tags: chronic Chronic Pain pain pain management
Pain education and management is important. Everyone suffers from pain at one point. Pain is very subjective and everyone should know when to seek help by medical professionals.
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Sickle Cell Disease
Tags: abdominal pain child children disease pain Sickle Cell Disease treatment
Sickle cell disease is a debilitating condition secondary to the severe pain patients with this condition suffer especially when they are in crisis. This article includes the management and treatment of sickle cell disease and the diagnosis.
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Quality Improvement in Pain Management
Tags: healthcare system opiods pain pain management pain relief quality of nursing
Discusses quality improvement approaches in pain management in the midst of the national opioid epidemic.
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Multimodal Analgesia: Ways to Take Away the Pain
Tags: analgesia anesthesia multimodal pain management Regional anesthesia
This article addresses ways to use multimodal analgesia such as opioids, anti-inflammatories, regional anesthesia, etc to achieve greater pain control in patients.
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My Love Affair with Pain: A Lyric Essay
Tags: Chronic Pain Lyric Essay pain poem
"My Love Affair with Pain" is a lyric essay that chronicles my relationship with chronic backpain. I wrote this as a creative writing essay, but after I read it at a seminar, several nurses approached me and asked if they could use my essay in their nursing classes to help nursing students understand the depth and breadth of pain.
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Medication Induced Bradycardia
Tags: anesthesia bradycardia labetolol medicine PACU pain
In medicine there is never a playbook about how things are going to unfold and this is especially true when it comes to recovering from surgery and anesthesia. For example, sometimes as nurses we give medications to treat one symptom and unintentionally cause another.
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Post-Operative pain management in Total Joint Replacements: Finding a Balance
Tags: joint replacements pain management Post-operative pain surgery
Post-operative pain can place patients at high risk for complications.
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Applying Ethical Standards to the Assessment of Pain
Tags: assessing pain ethical principles ethical standards ethical values ethics nurse's responsibility nursing ethics pain pain assessment role of the nurse
A nurse's role and responsibility is to ensure that our patient(s) receive adequate care and our assessments are comprehensive and thorough. One of the methods of assisting with pain assessment is applying ethical standards.
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FNP Student Assessment of Acute Abdominal Pain
Tags: abdominal abdominal pain Acute eating habits pain
This article serves to assist the novice family nurse practitioner student in the examination of abdomen in a patient presenting with acute abdominal pain.
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