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Pain Management in Older Adults [electronic resource] / A Nursing Perspective / edited by Gisele Pickering, Sandra Zwakhalen, Sharon Kaasalainen.

Contributor(s): Series: Perspectives in Nursing Management and Care for Older AdultsPublisher: Cham : Springer, 2018Edition: 1st ed. 2018 editionDescription: 135 pages : illustrations (colour)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783319716947 (e-book)
  • 9783319716930
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 616/.0472 23
LOC classification:
  • RB127 .P35 2018
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in printed form ISBN 9783319716930
Summary: This book addresses relevant issues to enhance pain management nurses need to advocate for effective pain treatment in the elderly. This book addresses relevant issues to enhance pain management nurses need to advocate for effective pain treatment in the elderly. Significant changes in the evolving nursing and healthcare environment require adequate information on this topic, as pain is a very challenging area. As other care professionals, nurses are daily confronted with issues on pain assessment and management. This volume offers an overview within an evolving health environment, in which nurses dealing with pain play a growing role. It showcases best practices in pain assessment and management, details non pharmacological and pharmacological treatments. It also addresses core issues defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), such as knowledge translation, that are most relevant for clinical nurses, student nurses, nurse researchers as well as other care professionals.
List(s) this item appears in: GMMH Wellbeing Books-Coping with Physical illness and Pain Management
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E-book Bolton NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Bridgewater Community NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book East Cheshire NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Mid Cheshire NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Pennine Care NHS Knowledge Service Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Stockport NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Tameside and Glossop NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh - Wigan NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan
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This book addresses relevant issues to enhance pain management nurses need to advocate for effective pain treatment in the elderly. This book addresses relevant issues to enhance pain management nurses need to advocate for effective pain treatment in the elderly. Significant changes in the evolving nursing and healthcare environment require adequate information on this topic, as pain is a very challenging area. As other care professionals, nurses are daily confronted with issues on pain assessment and management. This volume offers an overview within an evolving health environment, in which nurses dealing with pain play a growing role. It showcases best practices in pain assessment and management, details non pharmacological and pharmacological treatments. It also addresses core issues defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), such as knowledge translation, that are most relevant for clinical nurses, student nurses, nurse researchers as well as other care professionals.

Also available in printed form ISBN 9783319716930

Electronic reproduction. Browns Books For Students. Mode of access: World Wide Web.