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Course Task #1: Case Study: Pain Experience

Belle slipped and fell, hitting her head and sustaining a mild concussion and hematoma. She reported immediate acute pain at the injury site and a pounding headache. The nurse should anticipate that Belle will verbalize her pain levels during assessment. While pain can be present without behavioral signs, vocalizations like moaning or crying typically indicate acute pain. Suggested distraction activities to help Belle cope with pain include focusing on non-painful body areas, positive thinking, deep breathing, and distraction through other senses. Upon discharge, the nurse should provide health teachings on pain management at home and advise taking medications as prescribed.

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Course Task #1: Case Study: Pain Experience

Belle slipped and fell, hitting her head and sustaining a mild concussion and hematoma. She reported immediate acute pain at the injury site and a pounding headache. The nurse should anticipate that Belle will verbalize her pain levels during assessment. While pain can be present without behavioral signs, vocalizations like moaning or crying typically indicate acute pain. Suggested distraction activities to help Belle cope with pain include focusing on non-painful body areas, positive thinking, deep breathing, and distraction through other senses. Upon discharge, the nurse should provide health teachings on pain management at home and advise taking medications as prescribed.

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Course task #1

Case Study: Pain Experience


Belle is a young, healthy adult who slipped off the stairs going down to the basement and struck
her forehead on the cement flooring. Belle did not lose consciousness but did sustain a mild
concussion and a hematoma that was 5cm in width and protruded about 6cm. she experienced
immediate acute pain at the site of injury plus a pounding headache.

1. After an immediate assessment of the localized pain, based on the patient’s description,


what does the nurse anticipate regarding the pain assessment?

 The nurse should anticipate regarding the pain assessment is that patient should
verbalize her pain so that nurse know what the nursing interventions she will do for
her pain

2. During the assessment process, the nurse attempts Belle’s physiologic and behavioral
responses to her pain experience. The nurse is aware that the patient can be in pain yet appear
to be “pain free” what is the behavioral response indicative of acute pain?

 The behavioral response indicative of acute pain is verbalization or vocal response.


Vocalization like moaning, groaning, crying, grunting, screaming is associated with
pain

3. The nurse uses distraction to help Belle cope with her pain experience. What suggested
activities can help her cope?

 There are possible and suggested activities that can help her cope up. Focus on pain
free areas, if you are hurting from nerve pain in the feet concentrate on what your
hands can do instead. Think positively, you have to think positively so that you forgot
that you are in pain. Distract yourself, when you focus on things outside of the pain,
this allows the mind, body and soul to let go of the toxin and frustrations often felt.
Breath deeply, it can help relieve your pain temporarily.

4. After treatment, Belles is discharge to home while still in pain. What should the nurse
do?

 The nurse should do health teachings to the patient so that belle knows what she will
do whenever she is in pain, the management and interventions she will do. Advise to
take medications so that day by day the pain will be lessened.

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