Responses to acute pain and the nursing implications.
Management of acute pain offers many techniques--peripherally, to reduce the sensory input from the nociceptors and ascending fibres, and centrally by altering cognition, evaluation and emotional arousal to the sensory input. Scientifically-based nursing intervention is imperative. Therefore, nurses needed a better understanding of recent research regarding pain. As well, recognition that all individuals express and cope with pain in different ways, and therefore exhibit different pain behaviours, is necessary if effective nursing care is to be given. Finally, with all the interacting variables and methods of intervention available, pain medication should never be the only intervention used for the patient with pain.
D000339:Affect; D000698:Analgesia / Q000379:methods*; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology; D003071:Cognition; D003887:Desensitization, Psychologic; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D010146:Pain / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D012064:Relaxation Therapy