NSG 2317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intimate Partner Violence, Constitutional Symptoms, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
21 Sep 2016
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Pain subjective sensory/emotional experience of discomfort associated with actual or potential tissue damage: important to understand because it does effect vital signs, manifested psychologically, physically, behaviourally. Nociceptive aching, throbbing, radiating: somatic skin and musculoskeletal, visceral central organs, parietal peritoneum. Neuropathic burning, stinging, tingling: ex. Referred pain pain in one area translates as feeling it somewhere else because they are on the same spinal nerve track. Duration of pain: acute a short term, self-limiting, protective purpose pain that follows a predictable path, chronic. Opqrstu: onset, palliative (what provoked it?, quality, radiating, severity (on a scale; what are the functional effects?, timing (duration, constant, intermittent, understanding. Adaptation is possible with the intervention of therapeutic measures: moderate (4-6) Interferes with daily life therefore causes lifestyle changes. Independence is maintained and adaptation is achievable: severe (7-10) Normal every day life is limited as is independence. Pain assessment tools: faces scale, number scale, brief pain inventory. Very sudden severe onset of acute pain (thunderclap)
