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Pain Assessment and Management
Pain Assessment and Management
Pain Assessment and Management
AND
MANAGEMENT
(IASP)
TYPES OF PAIN
Acute pain – Short duration , healing process in 30 days.
Chronic pain – Its persist for the more than 3-6 month.
muscle, joints)
Subjective data
Objective data
SUBJECTIVE DATA
1. PAIN HISTORY:
circumstances?
Numerical scale
Descriptive scale
2. NUMERICAL SCALE
opposite end.
1. Pain scale
patient.
2. Wash hand and wear gloves if To prevent
needed. transmission of
microorganisms.
3. Provide privacy if needed. To provide comfort.
4. Ensure presence of easy lighting. For easy assessment.
5. Assess the level of pain using a
pain scale in the following method:
• assess characteristics of pain,
using PQRSTU of pain assessment:
Provocative/palliative factors-
what makes your pain better or
worse?
Quality – tell me what your
pain feels like?
Region / radiation – show me
where your pain is. Where is the
pain spreading to?
Severity – using a pain
intensity scale appropriate to the
patient age, developmental level,
and comprehension , ask the
patient to rate the pain, it has to
be related in descriptive and
numerical scale for adults and
visual analog for children.
Timing – ask the patient if
pain is continuous, intermittent,
constant or a combination.
Ask the patient , “ how is the
pain affecting you?”
6. Ask the remedial non- To decide the care to
pharmacological and be given and the
pharmacological taken at home avoid duplication of
and in the hospital. care.
response.
SAMPLE DOCUMENTATION
Patient expressed constant pain at the lumbar
region of the back. He/she said that it does not
radiate but increases eve with mild physical
activity. The level of pain was assessed using
numerical and descriptive pain scale. The pain
score was 6/10 and the patient expressed
moderate level of pain. Hot water bag applied
and T. Dolo 650mg administered as per doctors
order.
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