We know very little about the incidence of pain among the elderly in nursing homes. In Norway, no requirement is in place for pain to be assessed before or during nursing home admission, nor once a ...

The following is an installment of the "Try This" series published by the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. The content is intended to encourage nurses to understand the ...

KUTV — The following information is provided by Intermountain Health. May 6-12 is National Nurses Week. During the pandemic many people recognized nurses as working at the hospital bedside and in ...

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 ...

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 ...

If healthcare professionals are to render an accurate diagnosis, it is essential that they are able to describe a patient’s symptoms accurately, aided by the use of diagnostic machines and techniques ...

Pain assessment in elderly nursing home residents can be a challenge, as over half of these individuals have dementia, and many are unable to self-report pain. Zwakhalen et al. conducted a systematic ...

April 3, 2017 - A new Behavior Pain Assessment Tool (BPAT) provides a simple way to evaluate pain in critically ill patients--including those who aren't able to communicate their pain verbally, ...

A study that evaluated the effect of measuring patient self-reported pain on an NRS did not improve the quality of pain management in a population of patients in a general internal medicine practice.

How do you measure the pain of a patient who can't communicate? A Rhode Island Hospital researcher studied an observational pain scale in cardiac surgery patients, and found that the Critical-Care ...

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 ...