Tanya Lord, BSc, RGN, RM, is staff nurse, day-bed suite, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh Pain management has become a priority at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital since a patient survey ...

The provision of culturally sensitive pain assessment can be guided by models of culturally competent care. The LEARN model is a mnemonic for five guidelines: Listen, Explain, Acknowledge, Recommend ...

Management of pain is a top priority for nurses, which is appropriate because nurses spend more time with patients than any other healthcare professional does. Nurses must be prepared to adequately ...

Accurate assessment of acute pain is essential for the development of an effective pain management plan. Nurses play a pivotal role in the assessment of pain, owing to the nature of their relationship ...

It’s an experience that most everyone has had at a doctor or hospital visit, where at some point, usually early on, the question ‘on a scale of 0-10, what’s your level of pain?’ comes up. Then, before ...

Despite awareness that pain is common in nursing home residents, there has been minimal attention focused on how this pain changes over time. A new study presents compelling evidence of the existence ...

Pain often goes undiagnosed in people with learning disabilities, but a pain picture developed with the involvement of the person’s family is an effective pain assessment tool. This article comes with ...

(Reuters Health) - - Many nursing home residents suffering from chronic pain don’t get any medication or don’t get enough to fully relieve their symptoms, a recent U.S. study suggests. Researchers ...

Pain is a frequent problem for children with complex medical conditions -- but many of them are unable to communicate their pain verbally. For these children, nurses face a challenging task in ...

Nursing home residents who are prescribed a combination of tramadol, a pain medication, and antidepressants have a higher risk of seizures, according to an October study published in Neurology. The ...