Pain Management (Book)

When it comes to pain management, the “way we did it” is not good enough. Pain Management: Evidence-Based Tools and Techniques for Nursing Professionals is the new resource for your staff to treat and control pain using evidence-based tools and techniques.

Improve patient care and satisfaction

Nurses are patient advocates who need to play the lead role in helping control and relieve a patient’s pain. This valuable resource presents the latest evidence-based information to guide staff in the assessment, reassessment, treatment, and control of patient pain.

This easy-to-read book by pain management expert Yvonne M. D’Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS, covers all aspects of pain assessment and reassessment, including pain scales for a variety of patient populations. It includes case studies and practice exercises, empowering nurses to critically think through their efforts to manage pain.

Pain Management covers

• the transmission of pain
• ongoing assessment and reassessment
• using appropriate pain scales for each patient
• best practices
• the latest medications and therapies
• complementary therapies and techniques
• techniques for managing acute and chronic pain

Pain Management guides you through the selection of appropriate pain scales to use for specific populations and treatment options for different kinds of pain.

Take a look at what’s inside:

Chapter 1: The problem of pain
Chapter 2: The transmission of pain
Chapter 3: Pain assessment
Chapter 4: Pain assessment tools and scales
Chapter 5: Pain medications
Chapter 6: Non-pharmacologic pain management therapies
Chapter 7: Acute pain management
Chapter 8: Chronic pain management
Chapter 9: Difficult to treat pain conditions and specialty populations

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Learning objectives

• describe the problems associated with pain management
• differentiate between acute, chronic or persistent pain, and malignant or cancer pain
• discuss the importance of using national guidelines for pain management in practice
• define the four stages of pain transmission
• identify the elements of pain assessment
• describe common barriers to pain assessment
• discuss various tools used for pain assessment
• identify pain assessment tools for specialty populations
• review Joint Commission recommendations for choosing analgesia
• identify how to select a pain medication using the WHO Analgesic Ladder
• differentiate between medication types: opioids, non-opioids, and adjuvant medications for pain relief
• describe how cognitive behavioral techniques can be added to a pain management regimen
• discuss the use of non-pharmacologic therapies
• explain the safe implentation of Patient Controlled Analgesia
• explain the key concepts of epidural analgesia
• discuss the role of regional analgesia techniques in acute pain management
• describe the use of new pain management techniques using ON-Q and IONSYS
• identify interventional therapies used to treat chronic pain
• determine appropriate treatment options for patients with difficult to treat pain syndromes
• identify barriers to pain management in older patients

Pain Management: Evidence-Based Tools and Techniques for Nursing Professionals is a must-have resource for staff nurses, nurse educators, nurse managers, directors of nursing, VPs of nursing, and staff development specialists

About the author

Yvonne M. D’Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS, is the Pain and Palliative Nurse Practitioner at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, MD. She received her master’s degree from Winona State University in 1995 as a clinical nurse specialist, and received her nurse practitioner certificate at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1999. She lectures and presents nationally and internationally on such topics as chronic pain, difficult to treat neuropathic pain syndromes, and all aspects of acute pain management. She is the 2007 winner of the Nursing Spectrum Excellence in Nursing award for Advancing and Leading the Profession for Virginia, District of Columbia, and Maryland.

Faculty Disclosure Statement: HCPro Inc. has confirmed that none of the faculty/presenters or contributors have any relevant financial relationships to disclose related to the content of this educational activity.

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