[Nurses' role in cases of total pain].
Health professional daily confront the pain and suffering persons who need our help undergo. From a nurse's methodology this article describes a new perspective about nurses' role regarding total pain, employing as a tool to deal with this topic the AREA holistic pain model, a model which centers on the person and his/her family permanently seeking results derived from a plan which joins together all treatments and based on the creation of a reasoning network that will provide prioritized nursing diagnoses.
Sánchez Castilla
M José
MJ
Unidad de Cuidados Paliativos, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Sevilla.
Calderón Carrasco
Justo
J
D006801:Humans; D009736:Nursing Process; D010146:Pain / Q000451:nursing*