NURS 3524 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Palliative Care, Fentanyl, Weight Loss
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Pain, childhood cancers and end of life/bereavement care. Nurs 3524 wk 6 (no wk 5: nurs 3524: paediatrics. Pediatric pain: mavoy bertram, october 16, 2014, agenda, childhood cancers, end of life/bereavement care, definition: It is what the patient says it is and exists when (s)he says it does merskey, 1979. It has an emotional, behavioural and physiological components. An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage mccaffery & bebbe, 1989. Past experiences define pain experience: types of pain, categorized according to duration, location and etiology, acute pain, chronic pain, recurrent. Increased participation in needed diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Spinal tract for pain transmission developed by 30th week of gestation. Sleeping and playing children are not in pain . Parents are the next best in regards to comfort. Pain is not an acceptable outcome of hospitalization.
