This journal is quite useful for individuals who care for newborns and children. The author describes the anguish that youngsters experience. Despite the fact that the youngsters are in a lot of pain, the author observes that they are tough enough to deal with it. But, vulnerable youngsters in hospitals could not have endured such agony.
Carter discusses the significance of breastfeeding in a child's life. This profession is concerned with pain management and prevention strategies. A qualified nurse should take care of hospitalized children by reducing discomfort as needed. This article is important in supporting the thesis, since it categorizes the pain experienced by children to be separate from that of any illness. It stresses that children should be subjected to effective pain management to ensure the experience not causing trauma in the future.
Denny, D.L., & Guido, G.W. (2012). Undertreatment of pain in older adults : An application of beneficence. (Nursing Ethics), 19(6), 800-809.
This article explores the acute and chronic conditions, which older adults go through and how nurses can help in managing their pain. It gives a clear explanation of consequences, which are involved if the pain in older adults. Older adults have compromised immunity so if a simple condition is not managed, the immune system would be in a position to handle no more pain.
The authors of this article explain consequences of untreated pain in older adults. If the pain is inadequately controlled in older adults then a significant issue is raised about caring for the population. Older adults experience all types of pain; from multiple acute to chronic diseases, this makes them be more vulnerable to pain.
This article supports the thesis, since it enlightens us about the nurses’ obligation to treat their patient’s pain ethically. In fulfillment of ethical obligation in relieving pain in older adult patients, nurses usually advocate on their behalf.
Fishman, S.M., Young, H.M., Lucas A.E., Chou, R., Herr, K., Murinson, B.B., & Bakerjian, D. (2013). Core competencies for pain management: results of an interprofessional consensus summit. (Pain Medicine), 14(7), 971-981.
The principle purpose of the discussions in the paper is development of core skills when assessing pain. Moreover, it shows how to manage the pre-licensure in health science education.
Core Competencies for Pain Management explores the major domains of pain. Pain competencies are a common thing to most students that are pursuing pre-licensure in nursing. Pain is what most health professionals have not been reporting. This project focuses on competencies of pain and how the health profession can come in handy to reduce pain. It groups pain into the following domains, pain that is multidimensional, measurement and assessing pain, pain management context, and management of pain.
This research article supports the thesis, since it vividly explains to us the competencies involved in pain management. The ethical guides, diagnosis, and minimization of pain are well explained to the pre licensure students, organizations, and health professionals. The consensus carried out to analyze pain competencies has it grouped into four parts; pain that is multidimensional, pain measurement and assessment, pain management and pain context and management. These groups are responsible for giving vivid information about how complex pain is; health professionals’ role in observing and assessing pain and the collaborative methods to treat the patients.
Kozlowski, L.J., Kost-Byerly, S., Colantuoni, E., Thompson, C.B., Vasquenza, K.J., Rothman, S.K., & Monitto, C.L. (2014). Pain prevalence, intensity, assessment, and management in a hospitalized pediatric population. (Pain Management Nursing), 15(1), 22-35.
This is a research project that was carried out to identify the patterns in pain management and how it is widespread in several hospitals. Data collected were used in grouping pain into domains and patterns. It was through the data that the nature of pain was revealed, the analgesic used and how these drugs reacted with the patient’s body.
Kozlowski et al. provides us with guidelines and practices that have been put in place to ensure that pain management is improved in both infants and adolescents. The authors list the daily obstacles involved in minimizing pains, however, in some instances, it persists.
This article is in support of the thesis-nursing role in pain management, since it provides the daily challenges encountered by nurses to ensure pain to be minimized. The article plays the role of explaining side effects of analgesics on different categories of patients.
Lorentzen, V., Hermansen, I.L., & Botti, M. (2012). A prospective analysis of pain experience, beliefs and attitudes, and pain management of a cohort of Danish surgical patients. (European Journal of Pain), 16(2), 278-288.
If pain is managed adequately, then that is probably a good indicator of better health care. The outcome is that patients become satisfied. This article purpose is to assess how postoperative patients through examination of their pain experience, belief and the treatment used to relieve pain manage pain.
The book Pain Management in Nursing outlines an uncontrolled pain to occur about 50% of postoperative patients. The intensity usually varies from moderate to severe and the pain may last for as long as 24 hours. Some patients are usually uncomfortable with the nature of treatment they are given to reduce pain. Patients who have severe pain are given painkillers such as opioids and anti-inflammatory drugs such as paracetamols. Some analgesic administration practices are not effective so much need to be done to ensure the postoperative patients do not experience much pain.
In relation to this article, it is helpful in this thesis because it outlines pain experienced by postoperative patients. Most people know that operations are usually painful and if there were no pain management strategies, the postoperative patients would have been living in trauma.
Oliver, J., Coggins, C., Compton, P., Hagan, S., Matteliano, D., Stanton, M., & Turner, H.N. (2012). American Society for Pain Management Nursing position statement : Pain management in patients with substance use disorders. (Pain Management Nursing), 13(3), 169-183.
This book deals with how pain can be managed in individuals with substance abuse disorder. It first has topics that address the scope of addiction and the disorders associated with it, models of addictions and ethics considered. The immune system of drug addicts is compromised so they should be taken care with dignity and high-quality tools that relieve pain.
The authors Oliver et al. working in collaboration with The American Society for Pain Management Nursing has come up with measures that ensure pain in individuals with drug addiction to be managed. The International Nurses Society on Addiction also recommended the measures, in addition to the clinical practices. These two organizations have the mandate to ensure that any kind of substance abuse patient in pain is treated with respect, dignity, and quality tools that assess pain. If there is a failure in managing pain that is present in the drug addicts, then other conditions will not be treated easily. Barriers faced when these patients are treated include stigmatization, myths, and limited caretakers.
This article is relevant to the thesis, since it states that any kind of disrespect should not be involved when helping a patient in pain. It addresses that there are few number of professionals available to help substance abuse patients. In other instances, these patients face stigmatization in their line of treatment, hence, this tend not to be effective because it will inflict a sense of pain in them.
Subramanian, P., Allcock, N., James, V., & Lathlean, J. (2012). Challenges faced by nurses in managing pain in a critical care setting. (Journal of Clinical Nursing), 21(9‐10), 1254-1262.
The article discusses the intensity of pain if it is left unattended to. The result may be adverse medical conditions. Provision of pain relief is a central core in caring for the patients. Effective pain management is vital because some of the patients who end up being admitted to the critical care units still suffer from pain. However, there are challenges that hinder the effective delivery of care to the patient undergoing pain.
The authors of this article want to make sure that the nurses fulfill their obligation to care for the patients who are a pain. There is a list of challenges facing the organization and their staff when it comes to making diagnostic measures in pain management. The challenges include; limited self-sufficiency in making decisions, clinical guidelines is not clear and there is the lack of a structured pain management tool. The decisions that nurses make about pain will have a great influence on the quality of care to the patients who are critically ill.
This article will be used to support this thesis, since it enlightens us on the challenges that the nursing organizations face when it comes to dealing with ailing patients. It also explains the importance of pain relief in every patient.
Twycross, A. (2013). Nurses’ views about the barriers and facilitators to effective management of pediatric pain. (Pain Management Nursing), 14(4), 164-172.
The focus of the article is children who experience pain when they are hospitalized. It explains the barriers that the nurses deal with when they undergo their duty. The Pediatrics has work pressure that sometimes makes them not to give equitable care to their patients. The core facet here is that the nurses, organization, parents, and children have to be linked to ensure effective pain relief.
Twycross groups the pain experienced by children to be moderate and severe. He conducted a study on nurses whose role is managing pain in children. The nurses were well versant with the modes they use in administering analgesic to children.
This article is relevant to the thesis, since it shows us that nurses need all round support to effect pain relief in their patients. Events that lead to pressure should be eliminated in the pediatric hospitals so that the nurses can focus on the patients. Children are delicate so their pain should be managed effectively.
References
Carter, B. (2013). Child and infant pain: principles of nursing care and management. Springer.
Denny, D.L., & Guido, G.W. (2012). Undertreatment of pain in older adults : An application of beneficence. (Nursing Ethics), 19(6), 800-809.
Fishman, S.M., Young, H.M., Lucas A.E., Chou, R., Herr, K., Murinson, B.B., & Bakerjian, D. (2013). Core competencies for pain management: results of an interprofessional consensus summit. (Pain Medicine), 14(7), 971-981. Retrieved on July 15, 2013 from https://academic.oup.com/painmedicine/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/pme.12107
Kozlowski, L.J., Kost-Byerly, S., Colantuoni, E., Thompson, C.B., Vasquenza, K.J., Rothman, S.K., & Monitto, C.L. (2014). Pain prevalence, intensity, assessment, and management in a hospitalized pediatric population. (Pain Management Nursing), 15(1), 22-35.
Lorentzen, V., Hermansen, I.L., & Botti, M. (2012). A prospective analysis of pain experience, beliefs and attitudes, and pain management of a cohort of Danish surgical patients. (European Journal of Pain), 16(2), 278-288. Retrieved on January 6, 2012 from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1016/j.ejpain.2011.06.004/abstract
Oliver, J., Coggins, C., Compton, P., Hagan, S., Matteliano, D., Stanton, M., & Turner, H.N. (2012). American Society for Pain Management Nursing position statement : Pain management in patients with substance use disorders. (Pain Management Nursing), 13(3), 169-183.
Subramanian, P., Allcock, N., James, V., & Lathlean, J. (2012). Challenges faced by nurses in managing pain in a critical care setting. (Journal of Clinical Nursing), 21(9‐10), 1254-1262. Retrieved on July 21, 2012 from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03789.x/abstract
Twycross, A. (2013). Nurses’ views about the barriers and facilitators to effective management of pediatric pain. (Pain Management Nursing), 14(4), 164-172. Retrieved on December 2013 from http://www.painmanagementnursing.org/article/S1524-9042(11)00193-7/fulltext
