Pain management

Painful procedures and pain management is a common topic when animal welfare is concerned. Why are painful procedures used on livestock? Increased safety for animals and handlers, treatment of injury and disease, production of desired products, and identification are all reasons. Procedures such as castration, tail docking, clipping of needle teeth, and ear notching/tagging have all been recognized as painful procedures in the swine industry. Many people are now asking, “If these procedures are painful to the animals, why are we using them?” Well, the following paragraphs will explain four scientific studies on management of painful procedures on piglets. How do these procedures affect the piglets? Should we continue them? Evidence shows that…

Poorly managed pain has a number of undesirable physical and psychological consequences in children (Rennick et al, 2002) which can lead to short and long term effect on the nervous system (Sarpell, 2006). For orthopaedic patients, the consequences of poorly managed acute and postoperative pain can be quite significant both short and long terms (Lellan, 2004; Saxe et al, 2001). Orthopaedic studies have shown that the short term effect of poorly managed pain includes slower recovery, longer…

common chief complaints that pediatric patients report in the emergency department is pain. The overall purpose of this systematic review, was to not only examine what type of nonpharmacological methods Emergency Departments’ (ED) are using to manage pain in pediatric patients, but also to examine the benefits of using these methods. After reviewing studies in the CINAHL, PubMed, and Cochrane databases, only fourteen articles met the criteria for this review. Records were excluded if the study…

were to look at the effects of aromatherapy for pain management (Smith et al., 2011). There were three hypotheses that were presented in this systematic review. The hypothesis are as stated by Smith, Collins, and Crowther (2011) “(1) An effective means of pain management in labour as measured by decreases in women’s rating of labour pain: a reduced need for pharmacological intervention; (2) Improved maternal satisfaction or maternal emotional experience; and (3) aromatherapy has no adverse…

Pain management is an integral aspect of health care, especially in the case of end-of-life patients. For many of these patients Hospice care is provided to ease their passing. “Hospice focuses on caring, not curing and in most cases care is provided in the patient's home. Hospice care also is provided in freestanding hospice centers, hospitals, and nursing homes and other long-term care facilities” (Hospice Care. (2015, July 23)). When it comes to treating these patients for pain, it comes from…

For my ethical dilemma, I chose pain management, more specially pain management in the Emergency Department (ED). The ethical dilemma faced is: who should receive narcotic analgesics and who should not; along with how much should they receive. This ethical dilemma faces providers in the ED every day, it is based around: what is a person’s level of pain (Marcus & Venkat, 2015)? In nursing school, we learned that pain level is whatever a patient says it is, this pain level is normally conveyed on…

UNJUST PAIN MANAGEMENT For the African-American Community As nurse, we seek to aide all of those who seek our help. However, not everyone is treated justly when it comes to pain management and pain control. An example of this disparity would be the case Dominique Oliver, an African American male, received a compound fracture to his lower leg while attempting to steal a soccer ball from a player on the opposing team while playing sports in high school. He was rushed to the local ER where his…

(2015). Empower: An intervention to address barriers to pain management in hospice. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 49(1), 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.05.007. This study was conducted to assess initial effectiveness of the Effective Management of Pain: Overcoming Worries to Enable Relief (EMPOWER) intervention. This study included four hospices, which included hospice staff education, staff screening barriers to pain management upon admission, and addressing misunderstandings…

Cancer Pain Management Pain is one of the most common symptoms in cancer patients and often has a negative impact on their ability to perform the tasks of daily living and their overall quality of life. All people have experienced pain at some point in their lives, especially while in the hospital. During some point in a nurse’s career, the nurse will be responsible for managing a patient with pain. Even if a nurse chooses to not work in an oncology unit, almost every nurse will, at…

Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Pain Management Kevin Cates Hypothesis: TCM is an effective choice in pain management, specifically chronic pain and psychogenic pain of the lower back area. Chronic Pain and Pain Management: Chronic pain is a major health issue in our modern day society. It causes immense suffering for patients and their families, drains public health care resources and is a major detriment to society due to lost work productivity. Current western medical treatments are…