Clinical manual pain

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Numerous ready-to-use materials, such as patient medication information forms and instructions for nondrug pain management. Assessment forms and pain rating scales for all age groups that may be duplicated for use in clinical practice.

Pain rating scales for children and adults in foreign languages that may be duplicated for use in clinical practice. Forms for numerous situations, such as monitoring IV, PCA, epidural analgesia, and pain care in the home. Forms and recommendations for pain care committees to use in improving pain management within the institution and to ensure ongoing continuous quality improvement, helping to meet JCAHO standards. Resources listed at the ends of most chapters so patients and clinicians can obtain additional information.

Laminated equianalgesic charts to help with dose calculations when changing routes of administration or analgesics. As with all publications, authors make certain assumptions that guide selection and presentation of content. One of our assumptions is that the care of patients with pain is best accomplished by a team approach.

Therefore this manual presents information that is useful to most disciplines represented on the team. Content also aims to establish basic elements of collaborative practice. These include a common knowledge base shared by the patient, family members when appropriate, and all clinicians caring for the patient.

Patient information forms and other patient teaching materials are included for this reason. A common language is necessary, and the use of pain rating scales by the patient and clinicians and adoption of standardized documentation forms are emphasized to facilitate communication. While the care of patients with pain ideally is a team approach, another one of our assumptions is that, in most cases, nursing care is the cornerstone.

The nurse spends more time caring for people with pain than any other health team member. The nurse's role in this care most often includes implementing pain relief methods with and for the patient, identifying the need for change or the use of additional methods, obtaining them, and once again assessing the impact on the patient.

The nurse is in a key position to tailor the application of pain relief approaches to meet the needs of the individual patient, regardless of where the approaches originate e. We are convinced that it is through the efforts of the nurse that most patients with pain will receive assistance.

Both of us frequently speak on the topic of pain and have extended to our audiences an open invitation to write, fax, or telephone us regarding their views on patients with pain. We have learned much from this approach and invite our readers to contact us for assistance or to make comments and suggestions to us personally no e-mail, please.