Nursing 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Health Literacy, Referred Pain
5 May 2016
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Travels from periphery, up to central nervous system, where brain tells how to deal with it. Controlling pain, tries to close the gates, so that our central nervous system isn"t perceiving it as pain anymore. Pain increases in intensity, causes sleeping problems, decreases ability to cope. Episodic: stuck with a specific entity (sore throat) Bp gets higher in time of stress, requiring more metabolic processes making you tired: social factors. Attention, previous experiences, supports, spirituality, your background, Prev exp if dentist was painful they might not wanna go back. Having bad exp woth health care professional make hinder next exp. Supports allow people to get through it easier. Spirituality gives comfort, source of support, able to better answer why is this happening to me : psychological factors (one"s personality) Families that have better coping strategies do better in the face of adversity. Infants & children- use age appropriate instruments: when pain uncontrolled assessment scales < reliable than client perception.
