Comprehensive Acute Pain Management

Description
Pain is one of the most common reasons patients seek medical attention in the United States.  Nurses and other healthcare providers need current, state-of-the-art education to assist them in developing the crucial skills necessary to assess, manage, and evaluate patients with pain.  Addressing nurse and healthcare provider attitudes and assessment of pain is a necessary component of the education process.  This seminar will provide the tools acute care clinicians need to provide a comprehensive pain management plan.

Objectives
Upon completion of Comprehensive Acute Pain Management, the learner will:

  • Define pain according to the International Association for the Study of Pain
  • Identify three pathological types of pain
  • Describe four steps to realizing nociceptive pain after an injury
  • List factors influencing the patient’s perception of pain
  • Relate physical responses to pain for each body system
  • Identify the most common causes of why pain is under treated in the United States of America
  • State the components of a comprehensive pain assessment
  • Identify special considerations for age-specific pain assessments
  • Discuss the concepts of proper analgesic administration
  • Describe several holistic and complimentary pain management therapies
  • Discuss treatment options for special populations
  • Practice 5 simple pain easing exercises
  • Name the components of quality pain assessment documentation
  • Discuss ethical and legal issues related to pain management

Course Outline

  • Pathophysiology of Pain
  • Perceptions of pain, Costs of unrelieved pain, Misconceptions of pain
  • Pain Assessment
  • Pain Treatments
  • Documentation, Ethical and Legal Issues

Contact Hours – 6.0

Speakers: Diane Paulson, MSN, RN & Susan E. Thornton, MN, RN

Acute Care Education Associates, Inc. is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Washington State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. 

This course meets the Oregon State Board of Nursing requirement for pain management continuing education according to Senate Bill 885.

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