Pain Management
Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses
Assessement and management of pain is an integral aspect of patient
care for nurses working in all health care settings. Pain
management is a practical guide to current best practice,
providing students and newly qualified nurses with the knowledge
and skills required to care for a person experiencing or at risk of
experiencing pain.
Pain Management explores pain assessment, evaluation and
therapeutic management and challenges nurses to reflect upon their
practice in order to update and improve their clinical practice. It
adopts a chronological approach, exploring the essential clinical
skills required to effectively manage pain in all ages from the
neonate to the older person. Case studies, algorithms and evidence
encourage implementation of best practice throughout the
book.
Chapter 2: Types of Pain and Basic Strategies for Pain
Management.
Chapter 3: Pain in Neonates and Infants (0-6 Months).
Chapter 4: Pain in Childhood (6 Months to 12 Years).
Chapter 5: Pain in Early Adulthood (12-18 Years).
Chapter 6: Pain in the Middle Adult Years (18-55 Years).
Chapter 7: Pain in Older Adults.
Chapter 8: The Organisation of Pain Management Services
Development, Institute of Health & Community Studies,
Bournemouth University.
Eileen Mann is Nurse Consultant in Pain Management, Poole
Hospital NHS Trust and Lecturer-Practitioner, Institute of Health
& Community Studies, Bournemouth University