Introduction to Older Adult
PAIN
PAIN 4.0
Pain Management
Nursing Tools
100

Many older adults do not report this as they do not want to be seen as “complainers”

What is pain?

100

“an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.”

What is Pain?

100

Nociceptive pain, Somatic pain, Visceral pain and Neuropathic pain.

What is the four categories of pain.

100

The relief from pain.

What is a goal of pain management.

100

The Hendrick II Tool.

What is a fall risk screening tool.

200

Most older Americans have at least one of these and many have multiple of these.

What is chronic conditions?

200

Pain is only objective.

What is false, pain can also be subjective.

200

Most common, Localized, Muscle/skeletal, Achy/Sharp, Analgesics, Nonpharmacological can help, most undertreated as think part of getting old.

What is Somatic Pain?

200

The first action a nurse should take when a patient complains of pain.

What is pain assessment.

200

Katz Index

What is a measurement tool of the patients ability to perform activities of daily living?

300

This level is increasing.

What is the educational level of the older population?

300

No pain to minimal pain to moderate pain to severe pain.

What is the scope of pain.

300

Deep, Organs/organ surgery, Harder to discern, Referred pain, Intense pressure and squeezing, Can treat with analgesics

What is Visceral Pain?

300

Over the counter medication for arthritis, throbbing, aching.

Acetaminophen

300

The Lawton scale

What is a measurement tool of the patients ability to perform activities of daily living?

400

An older adult has decreased feeling in her lower extremities.

What is neurological change?

400

The sudden onset clearly linked to a specific event.

What is acute pain.

400

Burning, Diabetic neuropathy, Numbness, Phantom limb pain, Not easy to treat, Chronic or acute.

What is neuropathic pain?

400

Take this medication for burning in lower back shooting down lower leg.

Gabapentin

400

Fulmer SPICES

What is an assessment for "marker conditions."

500

A person with this diagnosis experiences easy agitation and may be non-verbal.

What is vascular dementia?

500

Lasting more than 3 months, may last for years. May be from underlying pathology or unknown cause.

What is chronic pain.

500

The treatment is unpredictable. May require more trials of different or combined approaches.

What is mixed or unspecified pain?

500

Take this medication for burning, shooting pain.

Amitriptyline

500

The MoCA

What is Montreal Cognitive Assessment?

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