What sort of problems may elicit pain

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Pain Assessment Worksheet

Pain is a sensation that affects all aspects of a person's life. Pain may indicate a problem that is immediately life-threatening. Pain impairs healing and quality of life. Nurses play a key role in the identification and treatment of pain. Competent assessment and treatment of pain is a nurses' professional and ethical responsibility. Failure to adequately assess and treat pain may not only compromise your patients' lives, but it could also destroy your career.

Question 1. Review the 'Initial Pain Assessment Tool' provided in the 'Pain Tools' folder. Explain why you think that each of the 1 questions/assessments were included in the tool.

Question 2. Give examples of what sort of problems may elicit pain with the following qualities:
a. Sharp -
b. Aching -
c. Cramping -
d. Burning -
e. Itching -
f. Deep -

Question 3. What individual characteristics may affect a person's perception of pain? (think beyond the physical)

Question 4. Why would you use a FLACC or NIPS scale for a neonate instead of the Wong-Baker Faces scale?

Question 5. Why would you use a numeric scale in addition to writing down the patient's description of their pain?

Question 6. In regard to using a numeric scale: If you do not have a person to tell you their comfort goal (number which represents the level of pain which a person considers tolerable) can you identify whether or not your interventions have adequately relieved their pain? (circle one) Yes No

Attachment:- Assessment Tool.rar

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