Pain management

The impact of chronic unrelieved pain on physiological will be if patient is dealing with prolong stress responses. Having an increase heart rate, blood pressure, and the need for more oxygen due to body not receiving enough oxygen. Patient will experience delayed healing, immobility, and decreased immune response. The impact of chronic pain for quality of life will be the pain will interfere with patient activities of daily living, and will experience different mood behaviors like depressions,…

communication, staff responsiveness, pain management, communication about medications, discharge information, cleanliness and quietness of hospital environment, and overall rating of the hospital. (hcahpsonline.org, n.d.) This report is made up of twenty-seven questions, of these twenty-seven questions three are directed to pain management. The questions are as listed: 1. “During this hospital stay did you need medicine for pain? 2. During this hospital stay, how often was your pain well…

Indeed, due to advance medical treatment of patients with SCD most patients now live beyond infancy into adulthood. However, most adults with SCD pain are undertreated and underserved. Also, research indicate that little treatment technique is known about the management of pain in adults with SCD compared to much that is known about the treatment of pain in children and adolescent with SCD. Consequently, it is essential that health care providers, especially advanced practice nurses (APN),…

daily physical chronic pain is something that is not uncommon in older adults. Contrary to popularly belief, pain is not a normal part of the aging process but somehow a large portion of the elderly population continues to live with daily pain. Chronic pain can result in negativity in multiple aspects of the sufferer’s life including increased rates of depression, poor appetite and sleep and an overall lesser quality of life (Wang & Feinstein, 2011). Although chronic pain is highly prevalent,…

Thesis Statement Chronic pain is a disabling condition that affects over 100 million Americans (IOM, 2011). It is constant or recurring pain that remains beyond the healing of an injury or acute illness. Chronic pain has the ability to destructively affect a person’s quality of life including their mental and emotional well-being. The pharmaceutical industry’s strong influence on American culture encourages healthcare providers to overly prescribe medications that offer temporary relief to…

internal fixation with a Tompson Prothesis. Since arriving at the hospital she has recurrently declined pain medication, and is in too much pain to change positions in bed. Despite the nurse’s efforts and advice, Mrs. Firth refuses to take any pain medications for fear of addiction. If Mrs. Firth’s pain cannot be lessened, she may suffer medical complications due to her inability to sit up in bed. Pain is often defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or…

back pain due to spinal stenosis and was being managed by outpatient pain management. She was hospitalized in December with complaint of headache, generalized weakness and falling at home. She suffers from chronic COPD and is currently titrating down on her prednisone, HTN which is stable at this time, GERD-stable and carotid stenosis which is stable. A today’s visit, she is home alone. She is awake, alert and oriented. She reports chronic back pain that has worsened. She describes her pain as…

As a nurse the primary role in pain management is advocation for the patient by believing reports of pain and act promptly to relieve it, while respect the patient’s preferences and values (Ignatavicius & Workman (2013), p.39). Expected outcome client report that pain management regimen achieves comfort-function goal without side effects, perform activity of recovery or ADLs easily, as well as notify health care team promptly for pain intervention when pain is consistently greater than the…

Nurses play a major role in preoperative , intra-operative and postoperative pain assessment and management .Pharmacological management is a challenging process to relieve pain. The first choice of drug is a background pain relief, is regular paracetamol, which is safe in the young and in the elderly, is well tolerated, effective in nociceptive and neuropathic pain and available in several dose forms. Regular doses of between 4g daily (four times a day) is recommended for…

Pain Medication Drug Abuse Americans are obsessed with popping pills. Our culture believes that a pill will cure anything from the common cold to cancer. Big pharmaceuticals have spent billions of dollars developing and marketing drugs to the young and old. While drugs are beneficial in many ways, there are some major disadvantages to being a society so heavily dependent on drugs. One of those disadvantages is unintentional drug abuse. Many times a doctor will prescribe a drug for pain and…