Pain Management

Simply, benefits of applying EBP in patient care would be the desired outcome for the patients. According to Haas (2008), in fact, patient care designed based on the latest evidence data have 28% better outcome. Nursing research has been improved in quality, and there is growing awareness that research provides professional nursing

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

The medical personnel should know the patient in depth, care about their differences, preferences and values. The priority of concern should be the patient's comfortability. The nurse aims to relive the patient of pain, ensure continuity of care and involvement in decision making. Measures of quality of care include structure and process about patient needs. There is need to implement change in methods and systems aiming at improving quality.

Conceptual analysis is integral in understanding nursing theory. According to Walker and Avant (1995), concept analysis allows nursing scholars to examine the attributes or characteristics of a concept. It can be used to evaluate a nursing theory and allows for examination of concepts for relevance and fit within the theory. The phenomena of pain will be discussed in this paper and how it relates to the comfort theory.

The Academy of Pediatrics and the American Pain Society believe that pain in children is experienced with interrelated factors such as sensory, emotional, cognitive and behavioral, combined with environmental, sociocultural and contextual elements (Stanley & Pollard, 2013). The authors find that pediatric pain often goes under treated. Pain management engages the entire nursing process, placing the nurse’s role as central to its

Pain is one of the most common reason patient seek out help. The concept of pain can affect every person is some form or way. Pain can stand alone as a theory or fix with other theories like Comfort, Self- care, and more. As a surgical nurse I need to have a higher understanding of the patients I care for to ensure they receive the best care. Concept analysis is a form of research that allows a person to explore a theory/ concept to the fullest degree in an organized way. This concept analysis will take Walker & Avant’s steps to form a better understanding into pain.

JCAHO (2011) also stated that patients and their families needed to be educated about pain and how the patients’ pain is going to be managed. Every patient perceives and exhibits pain in a different manner and if nurses do not assess the patient thoroughly they can miss it. For instance, Engebretson et al. (2006) acknowledged that, patients manifest pain in different ways and this resulted in nurses performing an inadequate assessment of their patients’ pain. Also, Engebretson et al. recognized that patients often conceal their pain because they do not want to be viewed by staff as complainers or addicts, and if patients decide to speak up the nurses frequently view their patients’ statements from their own cultural, moral and ethical belief system and not their patients which leaves the patients’ pain untreated.

Nursing assessment is a substantial way of gathering physiological, psychological, spiritual, and emotional condition of the patient. It creates a whole picture of an individual and assist the health care providers to formulate a diagnosis. Assessing the comfort of the patient is equally important as taking the blood pressure or temperature. Pain is the fifth (5th) vital sign that is subjective in nature when performing an assessment of a patient. Various studies were conducted in finding the most appropriate evidence-based nursing practice in assessing and managing the pain of a cognitively impaired patient, whether it is acute or chronic or the underlying cause is cancer or post-operative incision. As emphasized by Song, Eaton, Gordon, Hoyle, and Doorenbos (2015), it is vital to ensure that “pain management is based on the best evidence” (p. 456). Perhaps knowing the causes of inability to assess and manage the pain in a cognitively impaired patient would give a clearer understanding of the practice.

This essay will aim to look at the main principles of cancer pain management on an acute medical ward in a hospital setting. My rational for choosing to look at this is to expend my knowledge of the chosen area. Within this pieces of work I will look to include physiological, psychological and sociological aspects of pain management.

In the physical realm of patient-centered care pain, comfort, sleep, and rest are important aspects of the fourth dimension of patient-centered care. Patient-centered care is the complete focus of the medical team on providing respectful care to meet patient needs, preferences and values guide decisions on each individual patient care. To understand the subjective view of the patient, these four aspects are at the forefront of their needs within the hospital setting to provide the best patient outcome. Nurses provide good patient-centered care by actively partnering with patients to determine care priorities and plans to tailor their level of involvement, according to their preferences, and being flexible by changing the care plan as the situation changes including providing smooth transitions between care goals. By doing this, nurses can assist patients with all pain by providing comfort and assuring the patient that there will be no deficiency of their quality of sleep.

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

The first nursing diagnosis to address with the client is the chronic pain related to his posterior back as evident by his level of pain over the course of several months. The client has been complaining of pain upon initial assessment on 10/17/17. According to the client’s MAR he was diagnosed with nonspecific pain and was prescribed hydrocodone-acetaminophen PRN to help alleviate pain. In order to avoid under treating the client’s pain, the goal of the nursing interventions is to improve his quality of life by managing and treating his pain more effectively. Vital signs collected on 11/29/17 revealed that he had a pain level of 7 on a scale of 0 to 10. Over the next week the objective is

The education strategy developed for this QIP is aimed at ensuring nurses are accurately assessing and documenting pain. The nurses are not being required to learn a brand new skill; rather this strategy is aimed at changing how nurses are completing this task in their practice. Planned change must be a “well thought out and deliberate effort to make something happen” (Marquis & Huston, 2012, p. 163). Therefore, the application of Kotter’s eight-step change model (1995) will help to implement this change.

The study sought to improve patient care in three areas. The first area was improving pain assessment documentation by introducing a standardized pediatric assessment. The second area was decreasing the time the patient received pain medication. The last area was evaluating the effect of the nursing intervention in reducing the pediatric patient’s pain at discharge via a pain scale. This study was conducted at a 35 bed level 2 emergency department in the United States. A total of 1200 EMRs were collected from pediatric patients ranging from 3 months to 6 years in age (Ramira et al., 2016, p. 43). Half of the cases were review before the

In the context of the caring relationship, nurses perform a primary role in the assessment and management of pain and other