Nursing 4400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eval, Urinary Retention, Nociception
2 Jan 2017
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Week 4 palliative care part 2: pain and symptom management. The world health organization: (cid:498)the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment when control of pain, or other symptoms and of psychological, social and spiritual problems is paramount(cid:499) In the decades ahead, nurses at all levels of practice will need competencies in palliative care. Aging population = more comorbidities and palliative care. Strengthening of relationships with loved ones clients what to have their family involved compassion, caring, communication. This is an extremely thorough evidence based resource. Applied concepts warm up for next week. Definition unpleasant awareness of breathing, difficult or. 5 most prevalent symptoms: dyspnea, constipation, pain, delirium, pain. *difficult to assess in nonverbal patients uncomfortable breathing. Anything affecting lungs tb, pneumonia, copd, asthma, allergies. Subjective experience, complete history, pqrst, observe resp distress. Resp distress scale beh scale for pts who cant self-report. Rate single dimension intensity or severity of breathlessness.
