NSE 13A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Pain Management, Physical Therapy
1 Sep 2018
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Convey attitude that you believe client"s pain. Pain control can be ineffective if medications are not strong enough, patient doesn"t have money for medication, cultural risk to take medication. Quality of pain (what does the pain feel like?) Severity of pain (what do you rate on intensity scale?) Timing onset of pain (when did the pain start?, has the intensity changed over time and based on day/night?) Understanding of pain (what do you think cause is?, what medications worked in past?) Initial pain assessment: patient answered 8 questions concerning location, duration, quality, intensity, aggravating/relieving factors and effects on quality of life. Brief pain inventory: patient rates pain within previous 24 hours using graduated scales (0-10), indicates how much relief they had and describes how pain effects walking, work, sleep, mood etc. Visual analogue scale (vsa): patient chooses number between 0-10 to rate level of pain (0=no pain and 10= worst possible pain)
