Types of Pain
Last longer than six months and is constant or recurring with a mild-to-severe intensity
What is chronic pain?
When assessing verbal patients, a pain assessment may also include documentation of the patient’s description of the following elements
P: Precipitation or provoking factors
Q: Quality
R: Radiation or region of pain
S: Severity of pain
T: Time pain occurs or onset
The most common and effective method of pain relief
What is analgesic?
Mental and physical freedom from tension or stress that provides individuals a sense of self-control. Example:Yoga
What is relaxation?
A state of adaptation in which exposure to a drug induces changes that wont allow the medication to work when the patient really needs it.
What is drug tolerance?
Pain in absence of an identifiable cause
What is idiopathic pain?
Name 1 of the sedation scales used at PHHS
1) Pasero Opioid Induced Sedation Scale (POSS)
2) Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS)
3) Neonatal Pain, Agitation and Sedation Scale (NPASS)
Used to treat mild to moderate pain.
What is nonopioids?
Rubbing of the muscles and joints for relief of tension
What is massage?
A state of adaption that is manifested by a drug class specific withdrawal syndrome produced by abrupt cessation, rapid dose reduction, decreasing blood level of the drug, and/or administration of an antagonist.
What is physical dependence?
Caused by tumor progression and related pathological process, invasive procedures and toxicities of treatment
What is cancer pain?
Reassessment frequency for subcutaneous, intramuscular, intravenous, intranasal, sublingual, or bolus medication is?
What is approximately 30 minutes
Psychoactive chemical that resembles morphine in its pharmacological effects
What are opioids?
Talk with friends and family. Listen to music, watch a movie, or read.
What is distraction?
A condition that results when a person ingests a substance or engages in an activity that can be pleasurable but the continued use/ act of which becomes compulsive and interferes with ordinary life responsibilites.
What is addiction?
Pain that occurs sporadically over an extended period of time.
What is chronic episodic pain?
Patients receiving an opioid on the day of discharge will be educated to not do this
What is not operate a motor vehicle at the time of discharge.
Delivery system that allows patients to self-administer opioids with minimal risk of overdose.
What is patient-controlled analgesia (PCA)?
Massage, warm bath, ice bag, and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
What is cutaneous stimulation?
Effective nursing management of acute pain focuses on: (name 3)
1.Believing the patient’s report of pain
2. Reducing the sympathetic stress response
3. Providing pain relief before & during treatment & recovery
4. Facilitating participation in recovery & rehabilitation activities
5. Facilitating high quality patient outcomes.
Pain that comes from the bone, joint, muscle, skin, or connective tissue
What is somatic pain?
This pain scale is useful in adults with low literacy and/or has difficulty communicating
What is Faces Pain Scale
Treatment of acute post-operative pain, labor and delivery pain, and chronic cancer pain.
What is epidural analgesia?
Mild electrical current passed through external electrodes
What is transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation?
(TENS)
Evidence shows that effective pain control results in:
List 2 out of the 3 answers
1.Fewer Complications
2. Faster healing
3. Decrease hospital stay