Principles and practice of managing pain: a guide for nurses and allied health professionals
Parsons, Gareth
Preece, Wayne
Covers the principles of pain and pain management at an essential, basic level in easy-to-understand language that is perfect for pre-reg nursing students Includes lots of learning tools and features to help students explore concepts, self-develop and solid knowledge of how pain works and is treated by nurses - all essential throughout the nursing course. Draws on facts, physiology or pharmacology to help students develop a solid philosophy of care that encompasses good pain management. Covers the patient perspective in depth and will havea problem-solving ethos that explores pain management as a core aspect of care giving. INDICE: What do you understand by the term pain? Dilemmas in pain management Communicating the experience of pain Pain assessment The pharmacology of pain control Evidence base practice and pain management Delivering pain management Acute pain management: Planning for pain Pain management in palliative care
- ISBN: 978-0-335-23599-5
- Editorial: Open University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés