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By Yvonne M. D'Arcy
Discomfort administration: Evidence-Based instruments and methods for Nursing execs is the hot source to your employees to regard and keep an eye on soreness utilizing evidence-based instruments and methods. This easy-to-read publication by way of discomfort administration professional Yvonne M. D Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS, covers all elements of ache overview and reassessment, together with discomfort scales for quite a few sufferer populations. It comprises case reviews and perform workouts, empowering nurses to severely imagine via their efforts to control discomfort. this can be a must-have source for employees nurses, nurse educators, nurse managers, administrators of nursing, VPs of nursing, and employees improvement experts
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The patient experienced unrelieved pain and died shortly thereafter. As a direct result of the nursing assessment on admission to the second facility, in a second suit the North Carolina Department of Human Resources fined that facility for patient endangerment and found the nurse liable (Pasero 2001). There have been other cases where undertreated pain has been cited as evidence of elder abuse (LaGanaga 2001, Yi 2001). Pain Management: Evidence-Based Tools and Techniques for Nursing Professionals © 2007 HCPro, Inc.
2. Look at the patient in this case study and see if you can assess the patient’s pain. Case Study: John Jones John is a patient with Alzheimer’s disease. He is usually very pleasant and he smiles a lot. He takes his meals with the other patients and can feed himself. Today he is very angry and pushes you away when you try to get him up in the morning. He does not want to eat and becomes very irritable when you continue to try to get him up. He moans to himself and rubs his leg. When you look at his leg you see a large reddened area with swelling.
Pain Management: Evidence-Based Tools and Techniques for Nursing Professionals Pain assessment tools and scales Checklist of Non-verbal Pain Indicators The Checklist of Non-verbal Pain Indicators (CNPI) is a list of six behaviors that have been determined to demonstrate pain (Feldt 2000; Feldt, Ryden, & Miles 1998). These six behaviors are • vocalizations • facial grimacing • bracing • rubbing • restlessness • vocal complaints These behaviors were determined in a study that compared a sample of patients who were cognitively impaired to patients who were not cognitively impaired (Feldt 2000).