Pain Management At The Health Care Field

pain is the usual cause for persons to look for treatment. Inadequate pain management can cause delay in healing process. It can also leads to prolonged hospital stay. The acute pain management theory describe how nurse can manage pain with minimal effects from the pharmacological interventions and use of alternative methods of pain management (Good &Moore, 1996) The main factors are in the management of pain are Pharmacological, non-pharmacological, patient participation, education and different interventions. Effective pain management involves the application of non-pharmacological interventions and usage of pain medications. (McEwen & Willis, 2014). The pain management theory deals with management of pain in daily basis. It offers the knowledge about alternate methods in pain

Research has shown that there are several organizations and active advocates who are working on pain management problems to face this public health issue. The following establishments involve: The American Academy of Pain Medicine, Institute of Medicine, and American Pain Society and many for-profit and nonprofit organizations are also working at different level towards pain management. Most specifically, the IOM has been devoted to studying pain and its consequences on individuals, the healthcare system, as well as on government (IOM, 2011).

“Pain is much more than a physical sensation caused by a specific stimulus. An individual's perception of pain has important affective (emotional), cognitive, behavioral, and sensory components that are shaped by past experience, culture, and situational factors. The nature of the stimulus for pain can be physical, psychological, or a combination of both.” (Potter, Perry, Stockert, Hall, & Peterson, 2014 p. 141) As stated by Potter et al, the different natures of pain are dealt with differently depending on many factors. Knowing this, treating pain can be very difficult as there is no single or clear cut way of measuring it; “Even though the assessment and treatment of pain is a universally important health care issue,

Recognizing that the prevention of chronic disease and promoting population health is the key to controlling health care expenditure, the inclusion of pain management is a positive aspect of the legislation. While chronic pain is not in the top leading chronic diseases, the cost to the health care system is higher than heart disease and diabetes combined.2 This paper will discuss Title IV - Prevention of Chronic Disease and Improving Public Health. Subsection D - Support for Prevention and Public Health Innovation of the PPACA, including the funding of the United States Department of Health and Humans Services (HHS) for research in public health services and the examination of best prevention practices. One focus of this part of this provision is research and evaluation of pain management, the assessment, and treatment standards through an Institute of Medicine Conference on Pain Care.3

In conclusion pain management is an important impact on patient practice as well as education and knowledge. Although the study did prove to have been beneficial I found the results to be inconclusive as they were generally biased according to the perception of the patient on the individually nurses’ influence and actions toward the management of pain. Every nurse in each generation can learn the same information and the same execution it is what the nurse chooses to apply of his or her own attitude that will determine how the patients will perceive their care and this is with any study being performed on the nursing practice with patient.

Everyone experiences pain differently, its etiology, source, and type of pain is unique to each patient. Pain is defined as “a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that originates from sensory stimuli, which has obvious motivation-affective properties, demands attention, disrupts thought and behavior and results in activity aimed to stop the pain” (Blanchard, 2010). Managing pain in the acute care setting has become one of the greatest challenges nurses and healthcare providers face. Unsatisfactorily managed pain can contribute to several adverse outcomes for hospitalized patients including reduced mobility, stimulation of unhealthy stress response, infection, creates barriers, and additional complications. “As pain treatment becomes more aggressive, so too does our attention to reassessment of pain after intervention to ensure both safe and effective pain management” (Gordon, 2014).

Pain is the crucial sign that people pursue medical care. Hence, pain assessment and management is essential in the practice of every healthcare provider. The main purpose of pain management is to ease pain and anguish and improve function of patients in their lifetime. Incorporating EBP to a busy hospital setting is challenging for healthcare provider. As I work in a medical-surgical area pain is the most common reason for inpatient admissions; some of them are chronic in nature. The pain that is not controlled has adverse effects on both physiological and psychological condition of the patient. This affects family copying and normal functioning and leads to anger, anxiety and frustration. It is challenging for a nurse to assess a patient

Pain is the way the body communicates and lets us know that there is something wrong that needs attention. The brain processes that sensation into information and that leads us to take action. If it is a natural part of our beings and is necessary then why do we do all we can to suppress it? There is a fine line between pain that is needed to help with function and pain that is there that disturbs homeostasis. There is also a question of is pain real or is it all in the mind. Pain and being able to manage it, is a very big component in the perioperative setting. It is triggered differently and is unique to each person this make treating pain just as unique. This paper will discuss pain management in the pre-operative, intra-operative and post- operative settings.

Many people around the world have used medication to treat a medical issue, many individuals use medication daily to treat various issues and reasons including but not limited to diseases, disorders, for life, and pain management. Pain is an interesting concept, as the sensation is subjective to each individual, making it difficult to define. Anatomically, pain can be explained in steps: contact, reception, transmission, and receiving. First there is a stimulus; it can be pressure, puncture, a burn, etc. Then a nerve senses the stimulus and transmits a signal through neurons in the central nervous system. Finally, the brain receives the signal and decides how to respond. Everyone in their lifetime will experience pain to some degree, from stubbing

While there are many healthcare problems that can be discussed I chose to discuss the problem of management of acute and chronic pain. The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects proper pain management on nursing practice, population most effected by chronic and acute pain, ways to improve pain management from a nursing perspective.

This new recommendation also uphold the patient care model which means the care they receive will reflect their values andpreferences and provide holistic nursing care. RNAO (2015) also suggest the appropriate use of complimentary therapy in patient pain treatment. I had a patient suffering from chronic back pain and admitted with hip fracture. Managing her pain was a struggle as medication didn’t seem to be working. However after thorough assessment, she revealed the use of Ayurveda treatment of pain. And with team collaboration, she was allowed to use her own medication and her pain was managed

I choose to do my power point teaching on problems with pain. Pain is the number one problem among patients in all hospitals and community’s settings. Pain affect almost every one including babies. Pain is a universal experience occurring in all age groups and is the most frequent reason why people seek health care (Daudet, 2002). Research shows that most patient continue to experience unnecessary pain and that most patient receive inadequate pain management. Therefore, effective pain management is very important in health care, and it is a good indicator that quality care was provided to the patient. Nurses play an important role in patients’ pain management because they interact more with the patients. Based on my experiences as LPN, Nurses

Approximately 7 to 64% of all individuals will have persistent pain (Hadjistavropoulos et al., 2011). Thus there are effects to having persistent pain (Hadjistavropoulos et al., 2011). Some of those effects of having persistent pain are the following: impact on wellbeing, impact on employment and impact on the social function (Hadjistavropoulos et al., 2011). Research has shown that there has been progress made by communicating and controlling pain, however they are only minor steps (Hadjistavropoulos et al., 2011). Therefore with seeing that communicating pain is a significant aspect when dealing with pain researchers

The most common reason that people seek medical care is pain, and pain is the leading cause of disability (Peterson & Bredow, 2013, p. 51; National Institute of Health, 2010). Pain is such an important topic in healthcare that the United States congress “identified 2000 to 2010 as the Decade of Pain Control and Research” (Brunner L. S., et al., 2010, p. 231). Unfortunatelly, patients are reporting a small increase in satisfaction with the pain management while in the hospital (Bernhofer, 2011). Pain assessment and treatment can be complex since nurses do not have a tool to quantify it. Pain is considered the fifth vital sign, however, we do not have numbers to guide our interventions. Pain is a subjective expirience that cannot be shared easily. Since nurses spend more time with patients in pain than any other healthcare provider, nurses must have a clear understanding of the concept of pain (Brunner, et al., 2010). Concept analysis’ main objective is to clarify ideas, to enhance critical thinking, and to promote communication (Rodgers & Knafl, 2000). This paper will examine the concept of pain using Wilson’s Steps of Concept Analysis (Rodgers & Knafl, 2000).

The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage” (1979). Pain is actually the culprit behind warranting a visit to a physician office for many people (Besson, 1999). Notoriously unpleasant, pain could also pose a threat as both a psychological and economic burden (Phillips, 2006). Sometimes pain does happen without any damage of tissue or any likely diseased state. The reasons for such pain are poorly understood and the term used to describe such type of pain is “psychogenic pain”. Also, the loss of productivity and daily activity due to pain is also significant. Pain engulfs a trillion dollars of GDP for lost work time and disability payments (Melnikova, 2010). Untreated pain not only impacts a person suffering from pain but also impacts their whole family. A person’s quality of life is negatively impacted by pain and it diminishes their ability to concentrate, work, exercise, socialize, perform daily routines, and sleep. All of these negative impacts ultimately lead to much more severe behavioral effects such as depression, aggression, mood alterations, isolation, and loss of self-esteem, which pose a great threat to human society.