Prescriptive theory of acute pain management in infants and children.
OBJECTIVE
To present a middle-range nursing theory of acute pain management that provides direction for practice and research. CLIENT POPULATION: Patients from 6 months to 12 years old who have acute pain.


CONCLUSIONS
The potential of the proposed theory, Acute Pain Management in Infants and Children, is to assist nurses in managing clinical pain and to expand the knowledge and research base in children's pain.


CONCLUSIONS
To provide clinicians with prescriptions for pain reduction and a conceptual basis for pain interventions. Statement and theory testing are needed to determine adequacy of this theory for infants and children experiencing acute pain.
Huth
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Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. mmhuth@classic.msn.com
Moore
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D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000451:nursing*; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D014481:United States