The document discusses concepts related to pain, including its physiology, assessment, and nursing interventions. It defines pain, sources of pain, pain thresholds, responses to pain, and factors affecting pain experience. It also covers general pain assessment tools and strategies, diagnosing and documenting pain, and nonpharmacological and pharmacological nursing interventions for pain relief.
The document discusses concepts related to pain, including its physiology, assessment, and nursing interventions. It defines pain, sources of pain, pain thresholds, responses to pain, and factors affecting pain experience. It also covers general pain assessment tools and strategies, diagnosing and documenting pain, and nonpharmacological and pharmacological nursing interventions for pain relief.
The document discusses concepts related to pain, including its physiology, assessment, and nursing interventions. It defines pain, sources of pain, pain thresholds, responses to pain, and factors affecting pain experience. It also covers general pain assessment tools and strategies, diagnosing and documenting pain, and nonpharmacological and pharmacological nursing interventions for pain relief.
The document discusses concepts related to pain, including its physiology, assessment, and nursing interventions. It defines pain, sources of pain, pain thresholds, responses to pain, and factors affecting pain experience. It also covers general pain assessment tools and strategies, diagnosing and documenting pain, and nonpharmacological and pharmacological nursing interventions for pain relief.
PAIN Pain Is a highly unpleasant and very personal sensation that cant be shared with other.
It is considered the fifth vital sign.
It is one of the human body defence
mechanisms that indicates the person is experiencing problem. Sources of Pain Nociceptive: pain that is usually transmitted after normal processing of noxious stimuli
Electrical Activity to spinal cord and onto the Brain
BRAIN = Electrical activity becomes the
experience of
PAIN Duration of pain
Acute pain: generally rapid in onset, varies in
intensity from mild to severe, lasts from brief period to less than 6 months Duration of pain Chronic pain: may be limited, intermittent or persistent but lasts for 6 months or longer and interferes with normal functioning.
Remission: when the pain present but the patient does
experience symptoms
Exacerbation: reappearance of symptoms
Intractable pain: resistant pain to therapy, and persists
despite a variety of interventions Origin of Pain Physical cause — cause of pain can be identified
Psychogenic — cause of pain cannot be
identified
Referred — pain is perceived in an area
distant from its point of origin Pain threshold
Is the lowest intensity of stimulus that causes
the subject to recognize pain Common Responses to Pain
Physiologic: ↑BP, ↑HR,↑RR, pupil dilation,
muscle tension and tension rigidity, pallor, ↑adrenaline level, ↑blood glucose
Culture Ethnic variables Family, gender, and age variables Religious beliefs Environment and support people Anxiety and other stressors Past pain experience General Assessments of Pain Patient’s verbalization and description of pain
