NURS 3444 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Opioid Overdose, Opioid Epidemic, Pain Management
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Objectives: understand the severity of the current opioid epidemic, properly assess pain in varying age/developmental stages, determine appropriate pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies to alleviate pain in i. e. using the appropriate tools for assessment. )n (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:883)5 : 12. 5 million people used prescription opioids, . 5 billion in economic costs, 33, 091 people died from overdosing on opioids, 2 million people had prescription opioid use disorder. 2016 were more than twice the number 3 years ago. Adolescents and drug misuse: maybe find a slide specific to drug abuse; Importance of looking cabinets and disposing of medications properly. Pain behaviors: types of pain, acute pain: short attention. Irritability, grimacing, limb flexion, posturing, sleep disturbances, lethargy, withdrawal: chronic pain, physiologic adaptation may mask signs, neuropathic pain. Numerical scales: self-report in nature, faces, oucher, numeric rating, visual analog scale, these are usually used in children >7 years old; they are able to understand the concept.
